Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737

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.

A Pound of Flesh

A Pound of Flesh
Author: Alexes Harris
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2016-06-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1610448553

Over seven million Americans are either incarcerated, on probation, or on parole, with their criminal records often following them for life and affecting access to higher education, jobs, and housing. Court-ordered monetary sanctions that compel criminal defendants to pay fines, fees, surcharges, and restitution further inhibit their ability to reenter society. In A Pound of Flesh, sociologist Alexes Harris analyzes the rise of monetary sanctions in the criminal justice system and shows how they permanently penalize and marginalize the poor. She exposes the damaging effects of a little-understood component of criminal sentencing and shows how it further perpetuates racial and economic inequality. Harris draws from extensive sentencing data, legal documents, observations of court hearings, and interviews with defendants, judges, prosecutors, and other court officials. She documents how low-income defendants are affected by monetary sanctions, which include fees for public defenders and a variety of processing charges. Until these debts are paid in full, individuals remain under judicial supervision, subject to court summons, warrants, and jail stays. As a result of interest and surcharges that accumulate on unpaid financial penalties, these monetary sanctions often become insurmountable legal debts which many offenders carry for the remainder of their lives. Harris finds that such fiscal sentences, which are imposed disproportionately on low-income minorities, help create a permanent economic underclass and deepen social stratification. A Pound of Flesh delves into the court practices of five counties in Washington State to illustrate the ways in which subjective sentencing shapes the practice of monetary sanctions. Judges and court clerks hold a considerable degree of discretion in the sentencing and monitoring of monetary sanctions and rely on individual values—such as personal responsibility, meritocracy, and paternalism—to determine how much and when offenders should pay. Harris shows that monetary sanctions are imposed at different rates across jurisdictions, with little or no state government oversight. Local officials’ reliance on their own values and beliefs can also push offenders further into debt—for example, when judges charge defendants who lack the means to pay their fines with contempt of court and penalize them with additional fines or jail time. A Pound of Flesh provides a timely examination of how monetary sanctions permanently bind poor offenders to the judicial system. Harris concludes that in letting monetary sanctions go unchecked, we have created a two-tiered legal system that imposes additional burdens on already-marginalized groups.

Sanctions

Sanctions
Author: Gregory P. Joseph
Publisher: Lexis Law Publishing (Va)
Total Pages: 820
Release: 2000
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The sanctions movement continues to gain momentum. The federal courts have issued thousands of awards, many in excess of $1,000,000 against attorneys & parties engaging in litigation abuse. With new Rules 11, 26(g), & 37, the federal courts have created new regions of vulnerability for unwary attorneys. In Sanctions: The Federal Law on Litigation Abuse, Second Edition, author Gregory P. Joseph analyzes all the new rules & the other federal rules & statutes under which attorneys face sanctions.

Organization outside Organizations

Organization outside Organizations
Author: Göran Ahrne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2019-07-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108474985

Describes the organizational aspects of contemporary society, explaining how organization occurs not only inside formal organizations, but also outside and among them.

United Nations Sanctions and the Rule of Law

United Nations Sanctions and the Rule of Law
Author: Jeremy Matam Farrall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2009-07-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521141987

The United Nations Security Council has increasingly resorted to sanctions as part of its efforts to prevent and resolve conflict. In this 2007 book, Farrall traces the evolution of the Security Council's sanctions powers and charts the contours of the UN sanctions system. He also evaluates the extent to which the Security Council's increasing commitment to strengthening the rule of law extends to its sanctions practice. The book identifies shortcomings in respect of key rule of law principles and advances pragmatic policy-reform proposals designed to ensure that UN sanctions promote, strengthen and reinforce the rule of law. In its appendices United Nations Sanctions and the Rule of Law contains summaries of all 25 UN sanctions regimes established to date by the Security Council. It forms an invaluable source of reference for diplomats, policymakers, scholars and advocates.

Rule 11 Sanctions

Rule 11 Sanctions
Author: Georgene Vairo
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Total Pages: 1748
Release: 1992
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Revised and expanded to integrate updated coverage of the latest decisions, emerging case law, and new amendments, this book is a comprehensive guide To The law and practice involved in Rule 11 sanctions. it begins with an overview of the rule And The issues and progresses to practical discussion of applicability, cases, and procedural issues. it includes the pros and cons of various litigation strategies and solid legal arguments that practitioners can use to avoid Rule 11 problems and pitfalls. Including over 1,000 up-to-date case citations, reviews of new developments (including the effects of the 1993 amendments), and expanded treatment of problem issues, this is an essential reference for handling Rule 11.

ABA Standards for Criminal Justice

ABA Standards for Criminal Justice
Author: American Bar Association
Publisher:
Total Pages: 151
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN: 9781570737138

"Project of the American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Standards Committee, Criminal Justice Section"--T.p. verso.