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Showing 1 to 20 of 286 for “"Lawyers"”.
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International Lawyers as Lawmakers
International lawyers’ participation in international lawmaking is understudied. This gap is especially poignant in the context of the discipline’s obsession with discussing sources and lawmaking. This thesis employs an eclectic methodology that draws from doctrinal methods, critically inspired …
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Clients' Evaluations of Lawyers: Predictions from Procedural Justice Ratings and Interactional Styles of Lawyers
In evaluating clientsâ satisfaction with their lawyers, some research indicates that clients consider the interpersonal aspect of the lawyer-client relationship just as important as the legal competence of the lawyer. The purpose of this study is to assess factors hypothesized to be involved in …
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Designing a Positive Psychology Course for Lawyers
Legal education is slowly beginning to include not only education in critical thinking and legal knowledge, but also education in complementary qualities of personal conduct and early professional formation. Positive psychology, with its emphasis on the evidence-based study of how people can …
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Lawyers of Egypt: class, precarity and politics
… examines the rising precarity of Egyptian lawyers and its consequences on their politics. In making sense of lawyers’ complex class and status situation, now professionals living through subaltern lives, I trace the making of the profession to historical transformations since the 1950s. In …
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Undesirable Practice: A Cultural History of Lawyers and Advertising
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983.
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Cause Lawyers and Social Movements: Perspectives from Post-Katrina New Orleans
Cause lawyers maintain primary commitments to causes and pursue political and moral objectives that go well beyond the traditional lawyering objective of client service, which is the goal of most conventional lawyers. In this research I conduct in-depth interviews with cause lawyers involved in …
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Caseflow management and the politics of professionalism : lawyers and independent paralegals
Caseflow Management is a public sector program designed to promote effective management of cases through the resolution process in the public court system. Given its public nature caseflow management policy is ultimately an exercise in political will. To date that political will has been dominated …
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Cross cultural communication between scientists and lawyers in judicial policy-making
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982.
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Legal services lawyers encounter clients : a study in street level bureaucracy.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science.
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designing + (dis)assembling disputes: an ethnography of disputes & lawyers in the construction industry
… dispute and to what extent do construction lawyers control or direct this outcome? The research approach was ethnographic. Fieldwork took place at a leading construction law firm in London over 18 months. The primary focus was participant observation in all of the firm’s activities. In …
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Lawyers Need Law: A Study of Constitutional Arguments Made to State Supreme Courts
… of the U.S. Supreme Court, state judges, lawyers, and scholars in the 1970s argued for a new judicial federalism. State courts, using state constitutions, may provide protections exceeding the federal minimum. In addition to allowing states to experiment with solutions to rights disputes, …
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Lawyers in New South Wales, 1856-1914 : the evolution of a colonial profession
… political development of the colony. Although lawyers appeared to have won a secure and leading position in the social and political life of New South Wales by the 1850s, there were important weaknesses in the composition of the profession which soon undermined its standing and influence. Not …
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Lawyers in New South Wales, 1856-1914 : the evolution of a colonial profession
… political development of the colony. Although lawyers appeared to have won a secure and leading position in the social and political life of New South Wales by the 1850s, there were important weaknesses in the composition of the profession which soon undermined its standing and influence. Not …
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Resting the Case: A Grounded Theory Exploration of the Phenomenon of Rest Neglect in Practicing Lawyers
… pervasive issue of rest neglect among practicing lawyers, a phenomenon that contributes to the well-documented wellbeing crisis in the legal profession. Employing constructivist grounded theory methodology, the research is comprised of a dual-phase literature review and in-depth interviews with …
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A study of lawyers’ information behaviour leading to the development of two methods for evaluating electronic resources
… a broad cross-section of academic and practicing lawyers and feed our findings into the development of the Information Behaviour (IB) methods - two novel methods for evaluating the functionality and usability of electronic resources. We captured lawyers’ information behaviour by conducting …
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A study of lawyers' information behaviour leading to the development of two methods for evaluating electronic resources
… a broad cross-section of academic and practicing lawyers and feed our findings into the development of the Information Behaviour (IB) methods - two novel methods for evaluating the functionality and usability of electronic resources. We captured lawyers’ information behaviour by conducting …
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A brief screening instrument for use by lawyers to assess the capacity of older clients with memory deficits
… financial investments. Preventative law advocate lawyers act as therapeutic agents, preventing stress and discomfort in elderly clients making legal decisions. In order for practising lawyers to act as therapeutic agents, an ability to detect impaired decision making capacity in older adults is …
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Social Media and the Dual Role of Lawyers from Supporting Human Rights to Activism in the 2019 Algerian Hirak
This thesis explores the dual role of Algerian lawyers, both as legal professionals and political activists, during the 2019 Hirak movement. It pays particular attention to their strategic use of social media. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach, the study combines qualitative semi-structured …
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