Introduction - Lawyers, Swamps, and Money
Introduction - Lawyers, Swamps, and Money

Author: Royal C. Gardner

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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This paper is the table of contents and introduction to Royal C. Gardner, Lawyers, Swamps, and Money: U.S. Wetland Law, Policy, and Politics (Island Press 2011). The book is an accessible guide to the complex set of laws governing America's wetlands. After explaining the importance of these critical natural areas, the book examines the evolution of federal law, principally the Clean Water Act, designed to protect them. Readers will first learn the basics of administrative law: how agencies receive and exercise their authority, how they actually make laws, and how stakeholders can influence their behavior through the Executive Branch, Congress, the courts, and the media. These core concepts provide a base of knowledge for successive discussions of: the geographic scope and activities covered by the Clean Water Act; the curious relationship between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency; the goal of no net loss of wetlands; the role of entrepreneurial wetland mitigation banking; the tension between wetland mitigation bankers and in-lieu fee mitigation programs; enforcement issues; and wetland regulation and private property rights. The book concludes with policy recommendations to make wetlands law more effective.

Lawyers, Swamps, and Money
Lawyers, Swamps, and Money

Author: Royal C Gardner

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2011-04-15

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1597268151

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Lawyers, Swamps, and Money is an accessible, engaging guide to the complex set of laws governing America's wetlands. After explaining the importance of these critical natural areas, the book examines the evolution of federal law, principally the Clean Water Act, designed to protect them. Readers will first learn the basics of administrative law: how agencies receive and exercise their authority, how they actually make laws, and how stakeholders can influence their behavior through the Executive Branch, Congress, the courts, and the media. These core concepts provide a base of knowledge for successive discussions of: the geographic scope and activities covered by the Clean Water Act the curious relationship between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency the goal of no net loss of wetlands the role of entrepreneurial wetland mitigation banking the tension between wetland mitigation bankers and in-lieu fee mitigation programs wetland regulation and private property rights. The book concludes with insightful policy recommendations to make wetlands law less ambiguous and more effective. A prominent legal scholar and wetlands expert, professor Royal C. Gardner has a rare knack for describing landmark cases and key statutes with uncommon clarity and even humor. Students of environmental law and policy and natural resource professionals will gain the thorough understanding of administrative law needed to navigate wetlands policy-and they may even enjoy it.

Skadden
Skadden

Author: Lincoln Caplan

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 1994-10-30

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780374524241

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In this unprecedented look at the culture of American lawyering, Lincoln Caplan shows us Skadden's origins in the white-shoe postwar legal world and its rise to preeminence in the era of Drexel Burnham Lambert - the firm's largest client in the eighties. Skadden is revealed as a place that prizes opportunists but which also created a $10 million program to support public-interest lawyers. In Caplan's probing and even-handed account, the story of Joe Flom's firm illuminates an era in America business and society. "Caplan's inside insights are fascinating. It is as if we get not only one of L.A. Law's best episodes, but also a lot of what is usually left on the cutting-room floor." - Booklist

BigLaw
BigLaw

Author: Mitt Regan

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2021-01-12

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 022674227X

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The Great Recession intensified large law firms’ emphasis on financial performance, leading to claims that lawyers in these firms were now guided by business rather than professional values. Based on interviews with more than 250 partners in large firms, Mitt Regan and Lisa H. Rohrer suggest that the reality is much more complex. It is true that large firm hiring, promotion, compensation, and termination policies are more influenced by business considerations than ever before and that firms actively recruit profitable partners from other firms to replace those they regard as unproductive. At the same time, law firm partners continue to seek the non-financial rewards of being members of a distinct profession and are sensitive to whether their firms are committed to providing them. Regan and Rohrer argue that modern firms responding effectively to business demands while credibly affirming the importance of non-financial professional values can create strong cultures that enhance their ability to weather the storms of the modern legal market.

Lawyers, Swamps, and Money
Lawyers, Swamps, and Money

Author: Royal C Gardner

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2012-06-22

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1610910257

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Lawyers, Swamps, and Money is an accessible, engaging guide to the complex set of laws governing America's wetlands. After explaining the importance of these critical natural areas, the book examines the evolution of federal law, principally the Clean Water Act, designed to protect them. Readers will first learn the basics of administrative law: how agencies receive and exercise their authority, how they actually make laws, and how stakeholders can influence their behavior through the Executive Branch, Congress, the courts, and the media. These core concepts provide a base of knowledge for successive discussions of: the geographic scope and activities covered by the Clean Water Act the curious relationship between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency the goal of no net loss of wetlands the role of entrepreneurial wetland mitigation banking the tension between wetland mitigation bankers and in-lieu fee mitigation programs wetland regulation and private property rights. The book concludes with insightful policy recommendations to make wetlands law less ambiguous and more effective. A prominent legal scholar and wetlands expert, professor Royal C. Gardner has a rare knack for describing landmark cases and key statutes with uncommon clarity and even humor. Students of environmental law and policy and natural resource professionals will gain the thorough understanding of administrative law needed to navigate wetlands policy-and they may even enjoy it.

The Underground Lawyer
The Underground Lawyer

Author: Michael Louis Minns

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13:

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Explore the legal sewers according to Minns! The system isn't working as it should. "The Underground Lawyer" tells what went wrong, how to fix it & when we can't, how to live with it. Minns has written what could be called foundations in practical law, for non-lawyers. First, he gives us some legal history as background; then he introduces us to the "underground lawyer," a man or woman, sometimes a layman, sometimes a lawyer, who wades through the legal sewers, encountering a few sewer rats along the way. The underground lawyer could be Clarence Darrow battling for the first amendment or Aunt Gertrude helping you with your traffic ticket. After a preliminary introduction & legal education, Minns takes us through the American legal system, using real people, documented cases, vivid cartoons & colorful language to drive points home. This book is an encyclopedia of American jurisprudence, revealing trade secrets of the IRS (which he refers to as the American Gestapo), simplifying legal research, depicting divorce (which he labels disorganized crime), offering tips on dealing with collection agents & allowing us a glimpse into corporate boardrooms, courtrooms, judges' chambers & jail cells.

The Millionaire Lawyer
The Millionaire Lawyer

Author: Darren P. Wurz

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781639051489

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"The goal of this book was to provide attorneys a complete financial resource to help make sound financial decisions and avoid costly mistakes so they can maximize their wealth and achieve financial independence"--