Faculty Scholarship

The Case for Proactive Management-Based Regulation to Improve Professional Self-Regulation for U.S. Lawyers, 42 Hofstra L. Rev. 233 (2013).

“Professionalism” As Pathology:  The ABA’s Latest Policy Debate on Nonlawyer Ownership of Law Practice Entities, 40 Fordham Urb. L.J. 75 (2012).

When Realism and Idealism Collided in Fred Zacharias’s Work on the Purposes and Limitations of Legal Ethics Codes, 48 San Diego L. Rev. 479 (2011).

On Further Reflection, How Our System of Professional Self-Regulation Should Promote Compliance with Broad Ethical Duties of Law Firm Management, 53 Ariz. L. Rev. 577 (2011).

Thoughts on the Compatibility of Recent U.K. and Australian Reforms with U.S. Traditions in Regulating Law Practice, 2009 J. Prof. Law. 13.

How Things Have Changed: Contrasting the Regulatory Environments of the Canons and the Model Rules, 2008 J. Prof. Law. 161.

The Organized Bar and the Collaborative Law Movement:  A Study in Professional Change, 50 Ariz. L. Rev. 289 (2008).

Who Should Define Arizona's Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege?:  Asserting Judicial Independence Through the Power to Regulate the Practice of Law, 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 419 (2006).

The Regulatory Implications of Trends in Law Practice:  Thoughts on the Data Reported in Urban Lawyers, 2006 Prof. Law. 47.

An Interpretation of Recent Developments in the Regulation of Law Practice, 30 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 559 (2005).

The Promise and Problematics of Legal Ethics from the Lawyer's Point of View, 16 Yale J.L. & Human. 45 (2004).

Reforming Law Practice in the Pursuit of Justice: The Perils of Privileging "Public" Over Professional Values, 70 Fordham L. Rev. 1831 (2002).

Empirical Research with a Policy Payoff: Market Dynamics for Lawyers Who Represent Plaintiffs for a Contingent Fee, 80 Tex. L. Rev. 1829 (2002).

Introduction (Symposium - The Future Structure and Regulation of Law Practice), 44 Ariz. L. Rev. 521 (2002).

Regulatory Controls on Large Law Firms:  A Comparative Perspective, 44 Ariz. L. Rev. 593 (2002) (co-author, with Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.).

Reflections on the Changing Concept of "Clienthood" in the Law of Lawyering, 12 Researching Law, Spring 2001, at 1.

Legal Professionalism, in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 8663 (Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes eds., 2001).

Multidisciplinary Practice, Professional Regulation, and the Anti-Interference Principle in Legal Ethics, 84 Minn. L. Rev. 1469 (2000).

Book Review, 73 Wis. Law. 26 (2000) (reviewing Herbert M. Kritzer, Legal Advocacy:  Lawyers and Nonlawyers at Work (1998)).

Legal-Process Constraints on the Regulation of Lawyers' Contingent Fee Contracts, 47 DePaul L. Rev. 371 (1998).

Reputational Bonding, Ethics Rules, and Law Firm Structure: The Economist as Storyteller, 84 Va. L. Rev. 1777 (1998).

A Tale of Four Systems: Reflections on How Law Influences the "Ethical Infrastructure" of Law Firms, 39 S. Tex. L. Rev. 245 (1998).

Professional Self-Regulation and Shared-Risk Programs for In Vitro Fertilization, 25 J. L., Med., & Ethics 283 (1997) (co-author, with John A. Robertson).

Nostalgia in the Fifth Circuit: Holding the Line on Litigation Conflicts through Federal Common Law, 16 Rev. Litig. 537 (1997).

Legal Process Scholarship and the Regulation of Lawyers, 65 Fordham L. Rev. 33 (1996).

Searching for New "Particles" in the Law of Lawyering: Recent Developments in the Attribution of "Clienthood", 1 J. Inst. Study Legal Ethics 79 (1996).

Fuzzy Models of the Corporate Lawyer as Environmental Compliance Counselor, 74 Or. L. Rev. 99 (1995).

My Kind of Philosopher: A Lawyer's Appreciation of Joel Feinberg, 37 Ariz. L. Rev. 10 (1995).

From Self-Regulation to Bar Corporatism: What the S&L Crisis Means for the Regulation of Lawyers, 35 S. Tex. L. Rev. 639 (1994).

Policymaking and the Perils of Professionalism: The ABA's Ancillary Business Debate as a Case Study, 35 Ariz. L. Rev. 363 (1993).

The ALI's Restatement and the ABA's Model Rules: Rivals or Compliments? 46 Okla. L. Rev. 25 (1993).

Now is the Time to Impose Firm Discipline, Legal Times, Aug. 17, 1992, at 26.

Discipline Law Firms, Not Just Lawyers, N.J. L.J., Aug. 17, 1992, at 15.

Professional Discipline for Law Firms? 77 Cornell L. Rev. 1 (1991), reprinted in 42 Def. L.J. 83 (1993).

Professional Discipline in 2050: A Look Back, 60 Fordham L. Rev. 125 (1991).

Some Sympathy for the Hired Gun, 41 J. Legal Educ. 11 (1991).

Change and Persistence in the Bar President's Speech, 41 Mercer L. Rev. 581 (1990), reprinted in 41 Mercer L. Rev. 1019 (1990).

Professionalism as Bar Politics: The Making of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, 14 Law & Social Inquiry 677 (1989), reprinted in Lawyer' Ideals/Lawyers' Practices: Transformations in the American Legal Profession 95 (Robert L. Nelson, David M. Trubek & Rayman L. Solomon eds., 1992).

The Ethics of Coaching Witnesses: Varnished vs. Unvarnished Truth, U. Ariz. L. Rec., Winter 1988-89, at 6.

Civil Justice and Legal Ethics, in Civil Justice in Arizona:  How Much? For Whom? 145 (Kenney F. Hegland project ed., 1988).

Professionalism and Public Policy: The Case of House Counsel, 2 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 449 (1988), reprinted in Institute for Legal Studies Working Papers Series 3:6 (1988).

Teaching Legal Ethics to Yuppies, The Bar Examiner, Feb. 1988, at 4.

Uniting the Balkans: Wolfram on Legal Ethics, 37 J. Legal Educ. 434 (1987) (reviewing Charles W. Wolfram, Modern Legal Ethics (1986)).

Getting from "Is" to "Ought" in Legal Ethics, 1986 Am. B. Found. Res. J. 903 (reviewing Kenneth Mann, Defending White-Collar Crime:  A Portrait of Attorneys at Works (1985)).

Sunset for the Unified Bar, ABA Bar Leader, Sept.-Oct. 1986, at 20.

Professional Responsibility Case4 and the New Positivism: A Reply to Professor Chemerinsky, 1985 Am. B. Found. Res. J. 943.

Moral Philosophy's Standard Misconception of Legal Ethics, 1984 Wis. L. Rev. 1529.

Professional Responsibilities: A Required Course at U.W. Law School, 57 Wis. B. Bull., June 1984, at 30.

The Incoherence of the Unified Bar Concept, 1983 Am. B. Found. Res. J. 1.

The Unified Bar: An Historical Perspective, ABA Bar Leader, Nov.-Dec. 1982, at 20.