Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781590318737

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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Judicial Staff Directory 2000
Judicial Staff Directory 2000

Author: CQ Press

Publisher: CQ-Roll Call Group Books

Published: 2000-05-01

Total Pages: 1413

ISBN-13: 9780872891814

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In each edition of the Judicial Staff Directory you will find: -- National Courts -- Walk through the highest levels of U.S. courts with the complete insider's guide to federal judges, court locations, and direct-dial phone numbers. -- Federal Courts of Appeal, District, and Bankruptcy Courts -- Quickly identify the chief judge, clerk of court, court probation officers, u.s. marshals, and more. -- State Courts -- Access all State Appellate Courts, including judges and their personal staffs, court staffs, and adminsitrative offices. -- Counties and Cities -- Find out which circuit and district court represents any of the 14,000 counties and largest cities in the U.S. -- Biographies -- Get beyond the judges' chambers to the background each judge brings to the court with more than 2,800 detailed biographies of judges and court start. -- Indexes -- Convenient, time-saving look-up features include U.S. court Iocator and alphabetical listing of judges.

The Southern Judicial Tradition
The Southern Judicial Tradition

Author: Timothy S. Huebner

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780820332369

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This first book to examine the lives and work of nineteenth-century southern judges explores the emergence of a southern judiciary and the effects of regional peculiarities and attitudes on legal development. Drawing on the judicial opinions and private correspondence of six chief justices whose careers span both the region and the century, Timothy S. Huebner analyzes their conceptions of their roles and the substance of their opinions related to cases involving homicide, economic development, federalism, and race. Examining judges both on and off the bench--as formulators of law and as citizens whose lives were intertwined with southern values--Huebner reveals the tensions that sometimes arose out of loyalties to sectional principles and national professional consciousness. He exposes the myth of southern leniency in appellate homicide decisions and also shows how the southern judiciary contributed to and reflected larger trends in American legal development. This book adds to our understanding of both southern distinctiveness and American legal culture.

Judging on a Collegial Court
Judging on a Collegial Court

Author: Virginia A. Hettinger

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780813926971

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Focusing on the behavioral aspects of disagreement within a panel and between the levels of the federal judicial hierarchy, the authors reveal the impact of individual attitudes or preferences on judicial decision-making, and hence on political divisions in the broader society.

Attacking Judges
Attacking Judges

Author: Melinda Gann Hall

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2014-10-29

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0804793093

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Nasty, below-the-belt campaigns, mudslinging, and character attacks. These tactics have become part and parcel of today's election politics in America, and judicial elections are no exception. Attacking Judges takes a close look at the effects of televised advertising, including harsh attacks, on state supreme court elections. Author Melinda Gann Hall investigates whether these divisive elections have damaging consequences for representative democracy. To do this, Hall focuses on two key aspects of those elections: the vote shares of justices seeking reelection and the propensity of state electorates to vote. In doing so, Attacking Judges explores vital dimensions of the conventional wisdom that campaign politics has deleterious consequences for judges, voters, and state judiciaries. Countering the prevailing wisdom with empirically based conclusions, Hall uncovers surprising and important insights, including new revelations on how attack ads influence public engagement with judicial elections and their relative effectiveness in various types of state elections. Attacking Judges is a testament to the power of institutions in American politics and the value of empirical political science research in helping to inform some of the most significant debates on the public agenda. This book's results smartly contest and eradicate many of the fears judicial reformers have about the damaging effects of campaign negativity in modern state supreme court elections.