Paper Topics of Professor Abel’s UCLA Students and Lecturer John Steele’s Boalt and Stanford students UCLA Student Topics 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. Older Law Students: their origins, academic experiences, and employment opportunities. The Unauthorized Practice of Law: will we know it when we see it, and what should we do about it? Truth, Morality, and the Adversary System: a proposal distinguishing the civil advocate. Self-Regulation of the Legal Profession versus Independent State Agency (a good or bad idea?) Character and Fitness Standards for Admission to the Bar. Legal Education's Impact on Relationships: till law school do us part? The Revolving Door of Government: the ins and outs of the public sector. What Attorneys May Not Take With Them When They Leave Firms: a perspective on "client stealing" and "side switching." A Review of Lawyers as Legislators. Gay Lawyers in Los Angeles "...And Justice for All": conflicting interests in attorney-defendant life-story fee contracts. The Relationship between Law School Experience and Law Practice. The Ethical Obligations of Lawyers Representing Clients in Involuntary Commitments for Mental Illness. The Role of Lawyers in Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution. The Mexican American Bar Association and the Chicano Bar of Texas. The Conflict Between Lawyers and Physicians with respect to Medical Malpractice Litigation. Professional Self-Regulation and Judicial Corruption Patent Lawyers and their Lay Competitors Styles of Representing Clients in Divorce Proceedings Career Aspirations of Black Law Students Lay Representation of Veterans before the VA UCLA Latino Law Students Affirmative Action Programs Chinese-American Lawyers in Los Angeles
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Filipino Attorneys in Southern California Immigration Consultants Military Legal Services Lawyers in Medium-Sized Communities Soviet Lawyers Chinese Lawyers UCLA Law School Office of Career Planning Part-time and Temporary Lawyers Private Headhunters Judicial Clerkships Professional Liability in Legal and Medical Expert Systems Legal Malpractice Myth and Reality of the First Year Lawyer Politicians Pro Bono Activities in Large Firms Strategy and Ideology of Public Interest Lawyers Publicly Funded Indigent Criminal Defense Women Criminal Defense Attorneys Criminal Defense in Capital Cases Ethical Dilemmas of Family Law Practice Law Graduates Who Leave the Profession Attitudes About the Death Penalty The Informal Law of Brazil Psychological Effects of Law & Medical School No Exit From UCLA? The Forces Which Inhibit the Formation of a Critical Perspective on Legal Education Socialization and Money in the Law Firm Factory: The Effects on UCLAW Students' Career Preferences Law School Academic Support Programs: How Does UCLA Measure Up? Asian Pacific Americans and the UCLA Diversity Program Labor Union Lawyers and Management Labor Lawyers: Exploring Reasons for Their Choice of Sides
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Anglo-American Process: Charting the Development of a Reactive System Medical Malpractice Litigation: A Survey of Attorney and Doctor Attitudes Sole and Small Firm Practitioners in Marina del Rey Second Career Law Students Lawyers as Sports Agents The Jewish Lawyer: Perception and Reality, Yesterday and Today Fear and Loathing in the First Year of Law School The Legal Profession and Childrearing Job Turnover in the Legal Profession Insiders on the Outside: Hierarchy and Physical Space at the Large Law Firm The Joys and Tribulations of the Sole Practitioner A Question of Commitment? The Recruitment, Hiring, and Retention of Minorities and Women Faculty Members at U.S. Law Schools, with a Focus on UCLA Law School Choosing a Substantive Specialty: The Path of Least Resistance Federal Rule 11: A Survey of Ninth Circuit Cases and Attorneys The Allocation of Decision-making Authority Between Attorney and Client: General Standards; Corporate Transactional Practice; and Arguments for Greater Client Involvement Children's Perceptions of Lawyers Minority Representation in the Private Firms and their Impact on Whether to Work in the Public Sector Representing Women as Women: Women's Defenses to Criminal Homicide and the Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel Social Interest and Acceptance: A Comparison and Contrast of Lawyers and Law Students Eighteen Liberal Lesbian Lawyers in Los Angeles: Which One is the "L" Word? Entering and Leaving Public Interest Law Student Loan Foregiveness Program Restrictions on pro bono activity by public interest lawyers Mandatory pro bono Quality of life of practicing lawyers Law firm size: virtues and vices Marketing the legal profession
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Growth of in-house counsel The Black Law Institute Legal education as a disciplining process Age and the experience of law students Racial interaction among UCLA 3L students Latino law students Recruitment to lawyer roles among Latinos Southeast Asian attorneys in California Delivering legal services to Vietnamese-Americans Korean-American law students and lawyers Discrimination against gay and lesbian lawyers Sexual harassment of law students and lawyers Role conflicts among feminist corporate attorneys Media images of lawyers Internationalization of law practice Judicial retention elections Self-regulation by lawyers and doctors Sue-happy public interest lawyers The significance of economic democracy for the legal system and the organization of law practice. Ethical rules about sexual relations between lawyers and clients Estate planning and gifts/bequests by clients Representation of both sides in the entertainment industry Lawyer-client conflict of interest in negotiations Ethical questions about whom to represent Attitudes toward the hired gun model Lawyers representing political parties Unaccredited law schools The influence of law school on student satisfaction A comparison of Italian and American legal education and practice Gender Bias in the Courtroom American Lawyers Abroad
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Rabbis and Bengoshi: A Comparative Analysis of Professional Projects Anti-Semitism within the Legal Profession Patent Attorneys with MBAs A Proposal for a New Large Law Firm that Respects Quality of Life Blind Lawyers and Judges: Challenging Traditional Conceptions of Blindness The Experience of Disabled Attorneys: Interviews with Four Legal Professionalsals Operating in the Shadows: An Examination of Lawyers Working for Politicians From Angel Island to UCLA: Writings on the Wall Alcoholism and Alcohol Use in the Legal Profession The Power of the Prosecutor: An examination of the use of discretion when the law and personal values are in conflict Public Attitudes About Lawyers Selling Out or Buying In? An Examination of the Decline of Professional Altruism during Law School UCLA School of Law Graduates Who Decide Not To Practice Law: Who Are They and What Motivates Them? Influencing Vulnerable Victims--A Survey Lawyer-Parents: Discrimination and Accommodation You Can Always Do More: How Dependency Court Attorneys Cope With Case Overload Muslim Under-representation in the Legal Profession: Are There Ideological Barriers to their Entry? Why Can't Women Make Partner? When the Paradigm for "Success” Conflicts with Gender Equality Factors Affecting the Success of First-Year Students Law School Stress: The Beneficial Effects of Work Experience Prior to Law School UCLA Law Students and their Commitment to Public Interest Law In Search of Satisfaction: Female Attorneys with Children and the Failure of the Mommy Track "The Moral Compass"--Negotiating Through the Ethics of Personal Injury Litigation The Career Choices of Latino UCLA Law Students: Do Their Jobs Reflect Their Initial Reasons for Coming to Law School? Defending the Guilty, or "Answers Criminal Defense Lawyers Can Give to People at Cocktail Parties" Surviving the Bungee Jump: A Perspective on Minority Solo Practitioners
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Law Student Attitudes Toward the Legal Profession Women on the Bench: Shaping the Law Popular Culture's Need to Adopt Lawyer Myths Ethical Considerations for Attorneys Who Act as Public Officials Parenting and the Legal Profession: Cultural and Institutional Barriers Facing Men and Women The Power of the Badge: Socialization Into the Prosecutor's Role Insurance Defense Counsel: Conflicts of Interest in the Tripartite Relationship Dependency Court Attorneys The Legal Profession in India The Immigration Lawyer-Client Interaction: Communication, Ethics, and Understanding Associate Dissatisfaction in Law Firms From "To Kill a Mockingbird" to "A Time to Kill"--The Transformation of the Criminal Defense Lawyer as a Response to Racial Bias in the Jury System Conflicts of Interest in Entertainment Law The Professionalization of Ethics The Career Choices of UCLA JD/MBAs Television portrayals of women lawyers Negative media images of lawyers The legal profession in Vietnam Asian-American women lawyers Women lawyers and childrearing responsibilities Differences in the law school experience and performance of men and women Pre-law experience and first jobs The divergent agendas of public interest lawyers and clients Law school evaluation of student performance Lawyer writing The Finnish legal profession How laypeople acquire legal knowledge Prosecutorial misconduct Lawyer-commentators on high-visibility cases Pro bono services by law firms
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A constitutional right to counsel in civil cases International law as a specialization Representation in Jewish religious tribunals Public Views on Lawyers: A Statistical Analysis of a 1993 National Survey Justice Is Not Colorblind: The Experience of Lawyers of Color in California and Washington, D.C. A Survey and Analysis of UCLA Legal Needs and Student Legal Services On Trial at the Hague: Defense Lawyers at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Where Are They Now? An Evaluation of PILF: Tracing the Career Paths of PILF Grant Recipients Contemporary Film Images of Legal Education Bar Exams and the UCLA Law Graduate: Does the Bar Exam Still Serve a Purpose? Morality Games: Legal Negotiation and Detective Story Writing All in Good Humor? A look at the cartoons and jokes that poke fun at priests and lawyers Beauty and the Beast, or the Chronicles of a Defense Lawyer and a Ditz, with a Glance at the Crack'd Mirror of Television Which Telleth Their Tale Career Satisfaction The Bar Exam and Legal Education in California Lawyers in Italian Law Firms: Dealing with Growth (1998) Solo Practitioners and Small Firm Lawyers in Los Angeles (1998) A Comparative Analysis of the Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Attorneys and Minority Attorneys A study of lawyers and credit repair clinics in Southern California Asian attorneys in Southern California A time for change: the California State Bar's 1997 financial crisis Alcohol abuse among attorneys Associate attrition in large firms The allure of practicing law in a corporate legal department The legal aid system in China Challenging Socrates: Nietzsche and the beauty of the law The declining tenure of law deans Why female attorneys enter government work: a background and analysis of San Diego
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Public Defenders 196. 197. 198. 199. 200. 201. 202. 203. 204. 205. 206. 207. 208. 209. 210. 211. 212. 213. 214. 215. 216. 217. 218. 219. The People v. The Legal Profession: An everlasting lawsuit Transgression and transformation: a study of the law school experience and related battles of unlikely outlaws, dropouts and troubled youths Jealous mistress: substance abuse, mental health, and the legal profession The effects of residential life on first-year law students An analysis and comparison of the motivational techniques used by small and large firm lawyers Moral transformation in law school: anecdotes and empirical studies. Boalt and Stanford Student Papers Arab-American Lawyering: Background, Challenges, Changes The ABA and Federal Judicial Selection: Professional Legitimacy and Partisan Politics Lawyers and the Recording Industry The Costs and Benefits of Providing Free Legal Services through Law Firm Pro Bono Programs Which Will it Be? PD or DA? And What’s the Difference Anyway? The Changing Ethics of the Legal Profession in Post-Communist Bulgaria The Law & Culture of Anti-Globalization Explaining the Private Practice Shift: Examples from Boalt Hall What We Can Learn from Each Other: A Comparison of the Legal Education Systems of the United States and Germany Alcoholic, Esq.: Substance Abuse in the Legal Profession Lights, Camera, Cause of Action: The Effect of Judge Shows on the Public’s Perception of the Justice System Questioning the Perception of Law Review Running with the Law: Alternatives for Conventional Legal Education and Private Sector Practice Diapers vs. Depos: An Ethical Survey of Lawyer-Moms Women in the Law: Obstacles and Strategies for Institutional Change Will Replacing the Hourly Billing System with Alternatives Solve the Problems of the Current Hourly Billing System? Immigration Lawyers Putting Immigration Consultants Out of Business: Benevolent Altruism or Money-Grubbing Protectionism? The Client Comes First: An Introduction to Clients’ Perspectives of the Legal System
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Disabled Lawyers in Private Practice Skills, Psychology and Expectations: The Uneasy Relationship between Law School and Professional Private Practice Practicing Law in a Small Town Faculty Gender Diversity & the Quality of Education at Boalt Faculty Diversity and Adversity: The Exclusion, Alienation and Unreasonable Expectation of Minority Professors Stepping Up to the Bar: Dealing with Alcoholism in the Legal Profession Prestige in the Legal Profession An Officer and an Attorney: Careers with the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corp Has Law Gone Wild? Perspectives on the Evolving Status of Animal Law in the Legal Profession Reforming California Unfair Competition Law: A Response to Allegations of Attorney Abuse Size Matters: The Law Firm Evolution Exclusion at the Top: The Intersection of Race & Gender in Attaining Law Firm Partnership Women Lawyers Depicted in Film and Television: The “Third Wave” The Professional Responsibility Course: Ethical Morass or Panacea? Just a Job? Perspectives on Attorney Attitudes, Motivation, and Job Satisfaction Does Working at a Legal Aid Agency Present Intractable Ethical Dilemmas for Public Interest Attorneys? A Survey of Surveys The Attorney’s Role in Disclosing Corporate Fraud “Progressive” Prosecutor? An Analysis of the Role of Minority Attorneys in the Criminal Justice System To Whom Do I Owe My Allegiance? The Intersection between Judaism and the Law Man Walks into a Bar: The Role of Humor in Judicial Opinions Ethics and Class Action Settlements The Ethics of Law Librarians Should Mandatory Disclsosures to the SEC Be Considered Voluntary Waivers of the Attorney Client Privilege? The Propsoed Rules of Professional Conduct of the PTO The Cost of Justice: Regulating Defense Counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal
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for the Former Yugoslavia 246. 247. 248. 249. 250. 251. 252. 253. 254. 255. 256. 257. 258. 259. 260. 261. 262. 263. 264. 265. A Rough Road Going Global: A Study on the Etiology of the Protectionism in the Chinese Legal Market and the Future Perspectives Emerging Technologies, Nonlawyers and the Unauthorized Practice of Law: Should the ABA Play a Larger Role Promulgating Standards for Emerging Nonlawyer Services The Impact of Community Size on Lawyers’ Ethics How Concentrated Are the Markets for Law Firms: A Comparisoin of Canada, Australia, the UK, and the US Raising the Bar: How Enron Has Changed the Rules of the Game The Impact of Rulemaking under Section 307 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Deterioration of the Attorney-Client Relationship? The Role of the Pro Bono Coordinator: An Examination of Five Archetypes In-house Counsel and the Attorney-Client Privilege: How Sarbanes Oxley Misses the Point The Curricular Irresponsibility of Professional Responsibility Instruction: An Explanation of Why We Have So Many Ways of Teaching Ethics Ethical Issues of the Contingent Fee System The Ethics of Law Firm Hourly Billing Practices Write to Die: Balancing Client Needs and Legal Requirements to Draft Effective End-ofLife Directives Conflict of Interest Rules in the Age of Law Firm Growth and Expansion One Potato, Two Potato: Contrasting the Hot Potato Rule in Litigation and Transactional Settings The Superior Orders Doctrine: Useful Aid or Unhelpful Crutch for the Associate? Law Firm Mergers: Objectives, Methods, and Outcomes ABA Accreditation of Law Schools and the Legal Profession: Quality Control or Unjustifiable Exclusion? Testing Ethics: The Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination Questioning the Guild View Southern Lawyes and Judges: Or, the Ethics of Buying Really Nice Airplanes at Clients’ Expense (and Paying Off Judges)
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