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The Great Recession intensified large law firms' emphasis on
financial performance, leading to claims that lawyers in these
firms were now guided by business rather than professional values.
Based on interviews with more than 250 partners in large firms,
Mitt Regan and Lisa H. Rohrer suggest that the reality is much more
complex. It is true that large firm hiring, promotion,
compensation, and termination policies are more influenced by
business considerations than ever before and that firms actively
recruit profitable partners from other firms to replace those they
regard as unproductive. At the same time, law firm partners
continue to seek the non-financial rewards of being members of a
distinct profession and are sensitive to whether their firms are
committed to providing them. Regan and Rohrer argue that modern
firms responding effectively to business demands while credibly
affirming the importance of non-financial professional values can
create strong cultures that enhance their ability to weather the
storms of the modern legal market.
This volume examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of
national security intelligence collection and analysis. Powerful
new technologies enable the collection, communication and analysis
of national security data on an unprecedented scale. Data
collection now plays a central role in intelligence practice, yet
this development raises a host of ethical and national security
problems, such as privacy; autonomy; threats to national security
and democracy by foreign states; and accountability for liberal
democracies. This volume provides a comprehensive set of in-depth
ethical analyses of these problems by combining contributions from
both ethics scholars and intelligence practitioners. It provides
the reader with a practical understanding of relevant operations,
the issues that they raise and analysis of how responses to these
issues can be informed by a commitment to liberal democratic
values. This combination of perspectives is crucial in providing an
informed appreciation of ethical challenges that is also grounded
in the realities of the practice of intelligence. This book will be
of great interest to all students of intelligence studies, ethics,
security studies, foreign policy and international relations. The
Open Access version of this book, available at
www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
The intense debate over US targeted drone strikes outside war zones
has been limited by the failure to review and assess a considerable
body of quantitative research and qualitative material on the
impacts of such strikes on terrorist groups and civilians. This
book fills an important gap in the literature by conducting a
careful and rigorous review of such evidence. It argues that
decisions about the use of targeted strikes as a counterterrorism
instrument, as well as legal and ethical evaluations of such use,
must be informed by our best understanding of the insights that
empirical evidence can provide on the effectiveness of strikes and
the costs they impose on populations where they occur.
The intense debate over US targeted drone strikes outside war zones
has been limited by the failure to review and assess a considerable
body of quantitative research and qualitative material on the
impacts of such strikes on terrorist groups and civilians. This
book fills an important gap in the literature by conducting a
careful and rigorous review of such evidence. It argues that
decisions about the use of targeted strikes as a counterterrorism
instrument, as well as legal and ethical evaluations of such use,
must be informed by our best understanding of the insights that
empirical evidence can provide on the effectiveness of strikes and
the costs they impose on populations where they occur.
The Great Recession intensified large law firms' emphasis on
financial performance, leading to claims that lawyers in these
firms were now guided by business rather than professional values.
Based on interviews with more than 250 partners in large firms,
Mitt Regan and Lisa H. Rohrer suggest that the reality is much more
complex. It is true that large firm hiring, promotion,
compensation, and termination policies are more influenced by
business considerations than ever before and that firms actively
recruit profitable partners from other firms to replace those they
regard as unproductive. At the same time, law firm partners
continue to seek the non-financial rewards of being members of a
distinct profession and are sensitive to whether their firms are
committed to providing them. Regan and Rohrer argue that modern
firms responding effectively to business demands while credibly
affirming the importance of non-financial professional values can
create strong cultures that enhance their ability to weather the
storms of the modern legal market.
The threat posed by the recent rise of transnational non-state
armed groups does not fit easily within either of the two basic
paradigms for state responses to violence. The civilian paradigm
focuses on the interception of demonstrable immediate threats to
the safety of others. The military paradigm focuses on threats
posed by collective actors who pose a danger to the state's ability
to maintain basic social order and, at times, the very existence of
the state. While the United States has responded to the threat
posed by non-state armed groups by using tools from both paradigms,
it has placed substantially more emphasis on the military paradigm
than have other states. While several reasons may contribute to
this approach, one may be the assumption that a state must use each
set of tools strictly according in accordance with the principles
that underlie each paradigm. Implicit in this assumption may be the
sense that the only alternative to the civilian paradigm is the
unqualified military one. The chapters in this book suggest,
however that we need not see the options as confined to this binary
choice. It may be profitable to consider borrowing elements from
each paradigm on some occasions to act more expansively than the
conventional civilian paradigm allows, but less expansively than
the conventional military paradigm would permit. At the same time,
the mixing of the categories comes with its own ethical and legal
risks that should be scrutinized.
The 14th Edition of Professional Responsibility: Problems &
Materials continues the traditions that have made this book a
leader in its field for over 45 years. Built around problems, the
book asks students to think about how they should behave in
challenging, concrete settings. The 14th Edition remains flexible
enough to use in an overview course and challenging enough to use
in ethics courses focused on particular areas of practice. It
comprehensively addresses the ABA Model Rules of Professional
Conduct, but also deals with additional issues raised in the
Restatement (Third): The Law Governing Lawyers and in state rules
that illustrate different ways to regulate lawyer conduct. Perhaps
most important, the 14th Edition keeps up with a rapidly-changing
legal profession and with changes in lawyer regulation that respond
to new developments. The book considers how the Covid-19 pandemic
has changed the potential for virtual lawyer practice and increased
tolerance of practice from outside a lawyer's licensing
jurisdiction. It examines the protection of confidential client
information in a world where potential hackers threaten lawyer data
and it introduces forms of litigation finance that may
revolutionize how firms handle cases. It expands coverage of lawyer
counseling and responds to issues of diversity, and it deals with
Utah's Regulatory Sandbox and Arizona's rule changes that, even
now, let regulators see new forms of practice take shape and assess
the risks and benefits of the possible new future. Since 1976, the
authors of Professional Responsibility: Problems & Materials
have helped students prepare to respond to professional challenges
they will meet upon graduation, but also to understand how their
profession and its challenges are changing. The new 14th Edition
continues to meet those objectives.
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