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Confidence Games
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 421

Confidence Games

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-02
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

The rise and fall of a tax shelter industry that enabled some of America's richest citizens to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. For ten boom-powered years at the turn of the twenty-first century, some of America's most prominent law and accounting firms created and marketed products that enabled the very rich—including newly minted dot-com millionaires—to avoid paying their fair share of taxes by claiming benefits not recognized by law. These abusive domestic tax shelters bore such exotic names as BOSS, BLIPS, and COBRA and were developed by such prestigious firms as KPMG and Ernst & Young. They brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from clients and bilked the U.S. Tr...

BigLaw
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

BigLaw

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.

Eat What You Kill
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Eat What You Kill

  • Categories: Law

"A wonderful character study of someone whose cognitive dissonance ('I am brilliant, therefore I must be doing everything correctly') led directly to his downfall. Students would do well to read this book before venturing forth into a large firm, a small firm, or any pressure-cooker environment." -Nancy Rapoport, University of Houston Law Center "Eat What You Kill is gripping and well written. . . . It weaves in academic commentary and understanding of professional ethics issues in a way that makes it accessible to everyone." -Frank Partnoy, University of San Diego Law School He had it all, and then he lost it. But why did he do it, risking everything-wealth, success, livelihood, freedom, an...

Confidence Games
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

Confidence Games

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-02
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  • Publisher: Unknown

For ten boom-powered years at the turn of the twenty-first century, some of America's most prominent law and accounting firms created and marketed products that enabled the very rich -- including newly minted dot-com millionaires -- to avoid paying their fair share of taxes by claiming benefits not recognized by law. These abusive domestic tax shelters bore such exotic names as BOSS, BLIPS, and COBRA and were developed by such prestigious firms as KPMG and Ernst & Young. They brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from clients and bilked the U.S. Treasury of billions in revenues before the IRS and Justice Department stepped in with civil penalties and criminal prosecutions. In Co...

Family Law, Cases and Materials
  • Language: en

Family Law, Cases and Materials

This is the 2008 case supplement to Areen and Regan's Family Law, Cases and Materials, 5th Edition.

Alone Together
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Alone Together

How can we draw on the liberating aspects of individualism in marriage without denying the importance of connection? How might we benefit from recognizing the importance of sharing and sacrifice in marriage without reinforcing the traditional view that women should subordinate their interests to those of other family members? In addressing these questions, Regan's analysis is informed by communitarian and liberal theory, as well as by feminist perspectives on marriage and family life.

Legal Ethics and Corporate Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1288

Legal Ethics and Corporate Practice

  • Categories: Law

Regan and Bauman's Legal Ethics and Corporate Practice is organized around the workflow of lawyers who represent corporations. This innovative casebook integrates professional responsibility issues with a discussion of a particular type of task that both inside and outside counsel perform on behalf of business corporations. It uses problems to illustrate how various types of work ; from advising a privately held company to conducting an internal investigation of a multinational corporation ; generate challenges that cut across ethical categories. Each chapter begins with a road map of the material that will follow, and most end with one or two detailed problems that require students to draw on that material.

The Cambridge Handbook of Deliberative Constitutionalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 398

The Cambridge Handbook of Deliberative Constitutionalism

  • Categories: Law

Deliberative democratic theory emphasises the importance of informed and reflective discussion and persuasion in political decision-making. The theory has important implications for constitutionalism - and vice versa - as constitutional laws increasingly shape and constrain political decisions. The full range of these implications has not been explored in the political and constitutional literatures to date. This unique Handbook establishes the parameters of the field of deliberative constitutionalism, which bridges deliberative democracy with constitutional theory and practice. Drawing on contributions from world-leading authors, this volume will serve as the international reference point on deliberation as a foundational value in constitutional law, and will be an indispensable resource for scholars, students and practitioners interested in the vital and complex links between democratic deliberation and constitutionalism.

National Security Intelligence and Ethics
  • Language: en

National Security Intelligence and Ethics

The just intelligence model -- Intelligence and the just war tradition : the need for a flexible ethical framework / Ross Bellaby -- Truth-seeking and the principles of discrimination, necessity, proportionality and reciprocity in national security intelligence activity / Seumas Miller -- The technoethics of contemporary intelligence practice : a framework for analysis / David Omand and Mark Phythian -- Espionage -- Ethics in the recruiting and handling of espionage agents / David Perry -- The rights of foreign intelligence targets / Michael Skerker -- Digital sleeper cells and the ethics of risk management / Kevin Macnish -- Intelligence sharing among coalition forces : some legal and ethic...

Diversity in Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 455

Diversity in Practice

  • Categories: Law

Leading scholars look beyond the rhetoric of diversity to reveal the ongoing obstacles to professional success for traditionally disadvantaged groups.