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2023
Abstract This chapter focuses on lawyers, who are an essential feature of every developed legal system. The common law profession is divided between barristers and solicitors. Barristers are generally instructed by solicitors, rather than directly by the client, whereas clients may go directly to solicitors, although this rule has ...
Kathryn Hendley, Peter H. Solomon
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Abstract This chapter focuses on lawyers, who are an essential feature of every developed legal system. The common law profession is divided between barristers and solicitors. Barristers are generally instructed by solicitors, rather than directly by the client, whereas clients may go directly to solicitors, although this rule has ...
Kathryn Hendley, Peter H. Solomon
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Advances in Alcohol & Substance Abuse, 1984
Twelve lawyers with alcoholism admitted to an inpatient alcohol treatment service were studied. The group tended to have many additional psychiatric problems, the most frequent of which were affective disorders. Most of the admissions were precipitated by work-related problems.
R, Frances, G, Alexopoulos, V, Yandow
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Twelve lawyers with alcoholism admitted to an inpatient alcohol treatment service were studied. The group tended to have many additional psychiatric problems, the most frequent of which were affective disorders. Most of the admissions were precipitated by work-related problems.
R, Frances, G, Alexopoulos, V, Yandow
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Lawyers' lives, lawyers' incomes
International Journal of the Legal Profession, 2007Abstract Women lawyers, like women generally, earn less money than men for comparable work. This unfortunate conclusion has been reached by many scholars in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.2 Frequently the explanations originate in the structure and culture of large law firms.
William L.F. Felstiner, Alan Bradshaw
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Journal of Management & Organization, 2019
The development of artificial intelligence has created new opportunities and challenges in industries. The competition between robots and humans has elicited extensive attention among legal researchers.
Ni Xu, Kung-Jeng Wang
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The development of artificial intelligence has created new opportunities and challenges in industries. The competition between robots and humans has elicited extensive attention among legal researchers.
Ni Xu, Kung-Jeng Wang
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Uberizing the Legal Profession? Lawyer Autonomy and Status in the Digital Legal Market
British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019The online gig economy has disrupted many occupations in the past decade, but only more recently has it had an impact on professional fields. The recency of this trend indicates a need for understanding the impact of the online gig economy on ...
Yao Yao
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The Good Lawyer: State-Led Professional Socialization in Contemporary China
Law and Social Inquiry, 2019How do authoritarian states define and communicate notions of appropriate work conduct and professional excellence? This article examines three channels of communication used by the Chinese state to signal professional expectations to the bar: the bar ...
R. Stern, Lawrence J. Liu
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2022
Abstract Chapter 4 addresses Bushrod’s legal career before his appointment to the Supreme Court. His practice dealt mostly with appeals in Virginia’s Supreme Court of Appeals, and hence the chapter goes into detail about the judges of that court, Bushrod’s published reports of the cases decided there, some of his cases, and the lawyers ...
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Abstract Chapter 4 addresses Bushrod’s legal career before his appointment to the Supreme Court. His practice dealt mostly with appeals in Virginia’s Supreme Court of Appeals, and hence the chapter goes into detail about the judges of that court, Bushrod’s published reports of the cases decided there, some of his cases, and the lawyers ...
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Lawyer GPT: A Legal Large Language Model with Enhanced Domain Knowledge and Reasoning Capabilities
Proceedings of the 2024 3rd International Symposium on Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Information EngineeringThe emergence of large language models has brought about revolutionary changes in the field of natural language processing and has shown extraordinary potential in general tasks and various specific domain tasks, especially in the legal field.
Shunyu Yao +4 more
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Lawyer Wellbeing as a Crisis of the Profession
Social Science Research Network, 2019This Essay explores the implications of lawyer wellbeing for the health of the legal profession. To date, the movement to improve lawyer wellbeing has been largely propelled by the need to address the negative consequences of lawyers’ poor mental health ...
C. Krause, Jane X. Y. Chong
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AgentCourt: Simulating Court with Adversarial Evolvable Lawyer Agents
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational LinguisticsCurrent research in LLM-based simulation systems lacks comprehensive solutions for modeling real-world court proceedings, while existing legal language models struggle with dynamic courtroom interactions.
Guhong Chen +9 more
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