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My topic will explore the problems of providing legal assistance to parents of children with disabilities guaranted a free and appropriate public education under the IDEA at voluntary mediations, impartial due process hearings and civil litigation.  A couple of solutions will be proposed and assessed:

1. changing the voluntary mediation process to a more formal hearing through attnorney's trained in negotiations and ediation, and knowledgeable in special education law so that any settlement agreement between parents and districts will be more likely to provide a better placement for the child and fewer inequities in the process, and

2. altering fee shifting arrangements to include IEP meetings, which are not covered by the attorney's fees statutes or case law.

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The problems of poorer parents and children with disabilites covered under the IDEA in obtaining legal assistance and proper placement for a free and appropriate public education can be solved through or by 1. voluntary mediation hearings conducted by attorneys trained in mediation techniques and knowledgable in special education law to ensure a proper placement, and 2. altering the fee shifting provision to include IEP meetings.

-- David M. Moore

This paper will identify and critically analyze potentially litigious issues arising out of the provision of internet-based legal advice to executives in corporate healthcare planning. In addition, the paper will address the implications to the healthcare planning function and the practice of healthcare law.

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Problem:
Inefficiencies in the business planning process resulting from inaccessabilty to legal expertise.
Solution:
Analyze the legal and ethical ability to increase the availability and decrease the cost of legal guidance via an electronic
medium.

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The practice of law is beseiged with new forms of competition, most of which serves to place more power in the hands of the client. The "digital marketplace" requires firms to rethink the methods by which value is added to client relationships.  Firms seeking to enhance competitive position should consider the concept of "self help legal counsel." Self-help legal counsel
involves the sharing of limited and general legal knowledge through the use of preprogrammed logic. Attendant to this solution is a plethora of complicated legal and ethical issues.  This paper will address the economic impetus for such a radical solution and analyze issues concerning the unauthorized practice of law, confidentiality, attorney-cleint relationship, and attorney-client privilege within the context of a self-help legal CD-ROM marketed to hospital clients.

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Law firms, competing for market share, should analyze the benefits and legality of marketing self-help legal software to their clients.

Scope:
The practice of law is beseiged with new forms of competition, most of which serves to place more power in the hands of the client. The "digital marketplace" requires firms to rethink the methods by which value is added to client relationships. Firms seeking to enhance competitive position should consider the concept of "self help legal counsel." Self-help legal counsel involves the sharing of limited and general legal knowledge through the use of preprogrammed logic. Attendant to this solution is a plethora of complicated legal and ethical issues. This paper will address the economic impetus for such a radical solution and analyze issues concerning the unauthorized practice of law, confidentiality, attorney-cleint relationship, and attorney-client privilege within the context of a self-help legal CD-ROM marketed to hospital clients.

-- Timothy McNeill

* I want to add that this is perhaps not the only solution that I will propose, but it is the one that I can think of right now.

Title: Women, Partners and Mothers: The Economic Inequalities of Women Lawyers in Private Practice

Summary:  I intend to explore the reasons behind the lower number of women in the higher eschelons of law practice.  I believe these economic ineqities are primarily a result of women being the child-bearing sex, putting motherhood at
odds with significant financial success in private practice.  After a description of the problem, including statistics and analysis, I intend to make the argument that choosing motherhood is in effect not choosing equal income and success as compared to men.  Finally, I intend to propose various solutions to this problem.
-- Jennie Rawe

"The ethical rules that define and proscribe the unauthorized practice of law impose an unnecessary obstacle to the efficient administration of justice and should, in limited circumstances, be amended so that personal injury plaintiffs' lawyers can provide more efficient representation to their clients."
-- Pat Ford

When individual law firms containing pre-paid legal service client bases encounter dual representation conflicts of interest, the solution is planning through contractual designation of an independant law firm.
-- Ben Roach

Compare and contrast the intricacies of reciprocity between Japan, China and the US.  A Road Map to the Reciprocity Jungle.
-- Chad Learned

Examining a legal residency training program as a method of improving legal access, experiential training, and the public perception of lawyers.

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The problems of decreasing affordable access to legal assistance, lack of experiential training, and low public perception of lawyers can be improved by instituting a legal residency training program as an additional requirement for admission to the bar.

-- Gary Quick