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NAVIGATING \THOSE TERRIBLE MESHES OF THE LAW\: LEGAL REALISM IN ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S ORLEY FARM AND THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS
This essay draws upon Weberian sociology, law and literature studies, and Victorian novel criticism to explore Trollope's representation of the law in Orley Farm and The Eustace Diamond s . It reveals Trollope's damaging juxtaposition of the ethics of the realist novel and the commercialism of criminal advocacy in Orley Farm , and his persistent elevation of realist fiction as ethically superior to legal and romantic maneuvering in The Eustace Diamonds . Ultimately, the essay argues that Trollope is engaged in a vigorous competition on behalf of writers to rival lawyers for professional stature and charismatic authority in Victorian England.
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Most dangerous place
Jack signs on to defend an old school friend's wife who is accused of murdering her college rapist, but he finds the case unexpectedly complicated by the woman's tortured family history and conflicting testimony from an ex-boyfriend.
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In Search of Heimat: A Note on Franz Kafka's Concept of Law
Are Franz Kafka's representations of law and legality figments of his imagination, or do they go beyond his obsessive probing of his neurosis to reflect issues that also engaged the social and legal theorists of his time? Does Kafka's conception of law offer anything new in respect to law, justice, and bureaucracy that was not explored by his contemporaries or by later legal scholars? This paper uses Kafka's office writings as a starting point for reexamining the images of law, bureaucracy, hierarchy, and authority in his fiction-images that are traditionally treated as metaphors for things other than law. The paper will argue that the legal images in Kafka's fiction are worthy of examination, not only because of their bewildering, enigmatic, bizarre, profane, and alienating effects or because of the deeper theological or existential meanings they suggest, but also as exemplifications of a particular concept of law and legality that operates paradoxically as an integral part of the human condition under modernity. To explore this point, the paper places Kafka's conception of law in the context of his overall writing, which the paper presents as a series of representations of the modern search for a lost Heimat. Kafka's writing, the paper argues, takes us beyond the instrumental understanding of law advanced by various schools of legal positivism and allows us to grasp law as a form of experience.
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The fifth witness : a novel
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too, and he's certain he's on the right trail.
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The Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege: Loss of Predictability Does Not Justify Crying Wolfinbarger
The corporate attorney-client privilege is woven in fragile logic. A privilege protection designed to encourage a client to speak freely with an attorney is given to an entity that cannot speak and denied to those who speak for that entity. A privilege, historically construed narrowly to avoid the unnecessary suppression of relevant evidence, is extended to an entity whose management and employees have independent economic incentives to seek legal advice and speak with the lawyer from whom that advice is sought. A recent proposal to reassess the fiduciary duty exception to the corporate privilege, premised on the protection's diminished predictability, is, at best, ethereal and runs the serious risk of unraveling our legal fiction's best kept secret—that the emperor is wearing no clothes.
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Turning angel : a novel
Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep.
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Lawyer, Image of
Two types of lawyers have traditionally appeared in American fiction— conscientious, elite practitioners and predatory shysters. Although southern legal characters tend to conform to these basic stereotypes, they also embody distinctive regional values that set them apart from Yankee and western lawyers.
The typical antebellum practitioner, such as Philpot Wart in John Pendleton Kennedy’s plantation novelSwallow Barn(1832), is a transplanted English gentleman. Warmhearted, courtly, and a bit eccentric, he can quote passages from the Greek and Latin classics as readily as citations from Coke and Blackstone. With ties of kinship and professional service to the planter class, he
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The woman on the ledge : a novel
\"An edge of your seat work of suspense, about a woman falsely accused of murder who knows far more than she's letting on..\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Question of Genre
InJagged EdgeGlenn Close plays corporate attorney Teddy Barnes—her characterʹs name perhaps modeling the many androgynous names of female lawyers to follow (among them, T. K. inDefenseless, Grey inCurly Sue, Dana inLove Crimes, Jo inA Few Good Men, Darby inThe Pelican Brief, and Reggie inThe Client). Although preceded by the comediesSeems Like Old Times(1980) andFirst Monday in October(1981), as well as the 1983 dramaHanna K.(an American-French coproduction),Jagged Edgemarks the first of the main body of female lawyer films that began appearing with regularity from
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