Using management-based principles, this Article discusses steps to take to encourage ethics audits ‘to merge good ethics and good business’ in the United States of America. For decades, legal malpractice experts have urged lawyers to implement risk management measures, and legal malpractice insurers have provided audit services and self-audit materials. Under the Australian regulatory regime,…
Higher Demand, Lower Supply? A Comparative Assessment of the Legal Landscape for Ordinary Americans
Comments on the lack of data available, provides a summary of a US household legal needs study in 1994 where 50% of households experienced one of more legal problems annually. Of those with legal needs, 37% of the poor sought assistance from a third-party for resolution of the problem, 29% from a specifically legal third…
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Innovations in the provision of legal services in the United States
In a report for the RAND Corporation, Neil Rickman and James M. Anderson present a framework for examining legal sector innovation in the United States. This framework is to aid policymakers in understanding the likely effects of innovations and the role of regulation in promoting or deterring innovation. RAND Corporation. “Innovations in the Provision of Legal Services in…
Irrational behaviour as a rationale for regulation
Should regulators intervene on the ground that it’s for the consumer’s own good, even if the consumer doesn’t know it? In the Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, a series of articles puts the pros and cons of this approach, which seeks to intervene to address “costs we impose on ourselves by taking actions that are not in our…