How to make a photocomic, page 9
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The cartoon picture of me in the lower left-hand corner is from a poster for Throcky Gets Physical, a physics musical that my AP Physics class created my senior year of high school.
The machine gun photo deserves attribution, it is entitled Guns are cool... and chrismetcalf released it under a by-nc-sa Creative Commons license.
Nugget Magazine -- The Man's World (June 1963) ...item 2.. a lawyer asks his client: 'So, Mr. Pitikin, how much justice can you afford?' ...
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Two thousand years ago, Seneca described advocates not as seekers of truth but as accessories to injustice, "smothered by their prosperity."
This unflattering assessment has only worsened over time. The vast majority of Americans now perceive lawyers as arrogant, unaffordable hired guns whose ethical practices rank just slightly above those of used car salesmen.
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.....item 1).... Oxford University Press ... In the Interests of Justice
Reforming the Legal Profession
Deborah L. Rhode
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Description
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Two thousand years ago, Seneca described advocates not as seekers of truth but as accessories to injustice, "smothered by their prosperity." This unflattering assessment has only worsened over time. The vast majority of Americans now perceive lawyers as arrogant, unaffordable hired guns whose ethical practices rank just slightly above those of used car salesmen.
In this penetrating new book, Deborah L. Rhode goes beyond the commonplace attacks on lawyers to provide the first systematic study of the structural problems confronting the legal profession. A past president of the Association of American Law Schools and senior counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during Clinton's impeachment proceedings, Rhode brings an insider's knowledge to the labyrinthine complexities of how the law works, or fails to work, for most Americans and often for lawyers themselves.
She sheds much light on problems with the adversary system, the commercialization of practice, bar disciplinary processes, race and gender bias, and legal education. She argues convincingly that the bar's current self-regulation must be replaced by oversight structures that would put the public's interests above those of the profession. She insists that legal education become more flexible, by offering less expensive degree programs that would prepare paralegals to provide much needed low cost assistance. Most important, she calls for a return to ethical standards that put public service above economic self-interest.
Elegantly written and touching on such high profile cases as the O.J. Simpson trial and the Starr investigation, In the Interests of Justice uncovers fundamental flaws in our legal system and proposes sweeping reforms.
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Reviews
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"Rhode brings a livley style to a subject that is more typically covered in a drone of rhetoric and legalese.
Her frame of reference is expansive enough to include Seneca, Dostoevski, Wilde, Auden and even a New Yorker cartoon in which a lawyer asks his client: 'So, Mr. Pitikin, how much justice can you afford?'
....It's refreshing to read a book about lawyers that ponders 'the profession's moral universe' without a sarcastic smirk.'"--Jonathan Kirsch, The Washington Post Book World
"This is an important and timely book. It provides a comprehensive survey of the common complaints against lawyers and the legal system; a careful analysis of the most serious problems with the way lawyers perform their jobs, and make--or fail to make--available their services, and an imposing array of ambitious but workable proposals for reform. The book expertly builds upon the best that has been thought and said about legal ethics and legal practices in the last 25 years."--Robert W. Gordon, Fred A. Johnston Professor of Law, Yale University
"A thoughtful and well documented analysis, from a broad public perspective, of basic and enduring problems of the American legal profession. In the Interests of Justice presents the insights of a distinguished scholar into legal ethics, the cost of legal services, the delays in the legal system, the role of the law schools, and 'life' in contemporary law practice."--Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Trustee Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
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Product Details
288 pages; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4;
ISBN13: 978-0-19-516554-8
ISBN10: 0-19-516554-3
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About the Author(s)
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Deborah L. Rhode is Professor of Law and Director of the Keck Center on Legal Ethics and the Legal Profession at Stanford Law School. A past president of the Association of American Law Schools and senior counsel for the House Judiciary Committee on impeachment issues during Clinton's impeachment proceedings, she is the author of Legal Ethics, The Legal Profession: Responsibility and Regulation and, forthcoming from OUP, Ethics in Practice: Lawyers' Roles, Responsibilities, and Regulation. She lives in Stanford, California.
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.....item 2).... THE NEW YORKER ... Home > By Year > 1970s > 1973 > ... "You have a pretty good case
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img code photo......a New Yorker cartoon in which a lawyer asks his client: 'So, Mr. Pitikin, how much justice can you afford?'
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.....item 3).... The consumer bible: 1001 ways to shop smart ... By Mark J. Green, Nancy Youman
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CHAPTER 51 .... LAWYERS .... Finding Affordable Representation ..... Page 567 - 572
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Not P*&&!%!#@ ; Or, How To Become More Hated Than Octomom and AIG Combined
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For a cartoon about Octomom, see: www.flickr.com/photos/grafixer/3308140579/
In case you've been hiding in a cardboard box in the attic for the past week or so, this cartoon centers on the hilarious hoax . . . errr, I mean adventures, of Colorado's charming and beloved Heene family. Only in America, folks—where reality really knows how to rock and roll !!! If you have just climbed out of that box, google Richard and Mayumi Heene and get ready for the story of a lifetime (or at least a day or two). And if your sensibilities aren't too delicate and you don't mind complete and utter stupidity and puerility, with a healthy dose of misogyny and homophobia thrown in for good measure (not to mention a mind-boggling lack of any talent or redeeming qualities whatsoever), be sure to check out the Heenes' music video, “Not P*&&!%!#d” (think of another word meaning sissified, beginning with a word you might use to call your cat; ) on YouTube. Makes me proud to be an American, I'll tell ya! Nice to see that idiocy and greed is not the exclusive province of our politicians and business leaders.
And as we now know, Mayumi Heene may not be able to play the guitar at all, but she can sing like a canary: she admitted today that the entire episode was a hoax that the family had been planning for two weeks. Apparently, Mrs. Heene, although Japanese by birth, is not a Samurai willing to commit seppuku when faced with dishonor!
This cartoon made Explore on 23 October, 2009.
Gee. don't these folks remind you of America's newest "Balloon Family," the Sunderlands. It's come to light that these fine upstanding people have been frantically angling for a piece of the reality show pie, too. At least Richard Heene didn't actually send his kid up in the balloon.
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