Recent article in "L" magazine (national law student magazine), "Can You Spot
The Lawyer?" by Seth Oltman, at http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/stories/A21115-2000Apr12.html.
Recent
interview
(Q&A) by A.B.A. Journal senior editor Steven Keeva at transformingpractices.com.
Research
Interests, Including
Handouts & Slides From Recent Presentations and Talks
Current Research Interests: "Comprehensive Law," - Humane, Healing, Rights
Plus…
Introduction
to Comprehensive Law: What we are doing in the law is not working. Clients
are unhappy with their lawyers,
with the system, and with the outcomes of the process. Lawyers are
extraordinarily unhappy or even impaired. Extralegal dispute resolution
mechanisms in society have failed and society is overdependent on legal
processes to resolve conflict. As a result, society in general is suffering
from the effects of law’s adversarial, other-blaming, position-taking, and
hostile approach to conflict resolution. Perhaps in response, a number of new
approaches to law practice are currently emerging. These new approaches add
more collaborative, comprehensive, healing, humane forms of law practice to the
traditional forms. There are at least ten of these approaches, or "vectors,"
which are beginning to merge into a "comprehensive law" movement. The
"vectors" intersect in two ways: all seek to optimize human
psychological wellbeing and all focus on legal "rights plus" other,
nonlegal concerns. Click here for a brief discussion of the vectors of the
Comprehensive Law Movement.
Links
to websites of the "vectors:"
Restorative Justice: http://ssw.che.umn.edu/rjp Therapeutic Jurisprudence: http://www.law.arizona.edu/upr-intj Holistic Justice: http://www.iahl.org/index.htm Creative Problem Solving: http://www.cwsl.edu/admissions/bulletin (and then choose McGill Center for Creative Problem
Solving) Collaborative Law: http://divorce.net
The "Lawyer Personality" -
Empirical
Evidence That We Differ From Normal People:
Click here for a chart summary of the "lawyer personality" and here for a written summary of the "lawyer
attributes," including the effects of law school and here for summaries of newer studies on lawyer personality.
Click here for my bibliography of empirical
studies on lawyer personality and traits.
Click here for an abstract of my book manuscript on lawyer personality.
SLIDES: Click here to see my comprehensive set of Powerpoint "slides" from various recent talks on lawyer personality,
distress, and dissatisfaction, public opinion of lawyers, and the effects of
law school.
Click here to see Powerpoint "slides" from my presentation "Making the Practice of
Law Therapeutic For Lawyers: The Psychology of Lawyers and Alternative
Approaches to Lawyering," at the Second International Psychology and
Law Conference, European Association of Psychology and Law/American
Psychology-Law Society, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, July, 1999.
Click here to view a set of my Powerpoint
slides on my current work-in-progress on "comprehensive law," which for
me
includes therapeutic jurisprudence, preventive law, TJ/PL, restorative justice,
collaborative law, holistic law and lawyering, creative problemsolving,
procedural justice, and some forms of alternative dispute resolution and
mediation.
Personal Bibliography:
Click
here for my "master bibliography" on lawyer personality, professionalism, and the
legal profession.
Miscellany (data, substance abuse work):
Click here for summary of data on prevalence
of malpractice claims.
Click here for information on substance abuse among
lawyers and gender differences in substance abuse.
For Course Syllabi and
Assignments – 2000-2001: Please see my
class pages. Comprehensive Law Practice
has information on the CL Movement website (see above) and on the
listserve: CLP-DAICOFF@fcsl.edu.
View Course Syllabi and
Assignments – 1999-2000
Click here to see syllabus from Commercial Paper, Spring, 2000, at Capital University Law School. And here for updated assignments.
Click here for the diagrams I discussed in
class on March 15, 2000 (these aren't real successful on the web - see me for
paper versions). Here for a short outline of the entire course. Here for the Answers to
the 15 Review Questions (you must see me for
copies of the Questions, sorry!).
Click here to see syllabus from Corporate Taxation, Spring, 2000, at Capital University Law School. And here for updated assignments. Click here for handouts from
class on March 17, 2000: Project #1 (due March 31), Project
#3 (to be done in class on March 31), and
here for Review Questions and Answers Handout.
Click here to see syllabus from Law & Psychology, Fall, 1999, at Capital University Law School. Click
here to see my
evaluation forms for Law & Psychology
course (e.g., how I evaluate papers and oral presentations).
Click here to see syllabus and assignments
for the whole semester, from Partnership Taxation, Fall, 1999, at Capital University Law School. Click here for Answers to the Short Review
Questions. Click here for Long Review Questions and here for Answers to the Long Review Questions. Note that "Diane" in the Answers refers to
"Jack" in the long problems. Here are the Answers to the Long Review
Questions with proper names. You will
have to reformat these files a little after you retrieve them, since the
balance sheets and numerical information have "shifted in flight" (i.e.,
are hard to read).
Click here to see syllabus from Advanced Problems in the
Taxation of Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, Fall, 1999, at Capital University Law School and
here for the Final
Project for this course.
Better one's
own path, though imperfect, than the path of another, well-made. 