Lawyer Satisfaction in the Process of Structuring Legal Careers

This article proposes a new approach to the study of job satisfaction in the legal profession. Drawing on a Bourdieusian understanding of the relationship between social class and dispositions, we argue that job satisfaction depends in part on social origins and the credentials related to these origins, with social hierarchies helping to define the expectations and possibilities that produce professional careers. Through this lens, job satisfaction is understood as a mechanism through which social and professional hierarchies are produced and reproduced. Relying on the first national data set on lawyer careers (including both survey data and in-depth interviews), we find that lawyers' social background, as reflected in the ranking of their law school, decreases career satisfaction and increases the odds of a job search for the most successful new lawyers. When combined with the interview data, we find that social class is an important component of a stratification system that tends to lead individuals into hierarchically arranged positions.     

非洲国家的律师制度

非洲国家自获得政治独立以来,初步建立了自己的司法制度,同时也开始逐步建立和发展自己本国的律师制度.然而,总体来看,非洲国家的律师制度才刚刚起步,还不是很发达,并且还存在诸多问题.在经济全球化和民主自由化浪潮的冲击和影响下,作为保障人权、实现社会正义以及促进民主法治的律师制度将在非洲国家得到不断的发展和完善.     

日本律师职业主义的沿革

战后的日本社会经历了巨大的变革,司法制度的变革引发了律师职业主义的变化。自新律师法通过以后,改革一直围绕着律师职业化问题进行,律师制度的变革在不同时期形成了与其它国家不同的职业特征及相应的理念,但市场又不断给律师职业行为带来新的问题和不可避免的矛盾,为克服市场营利主义给律师服务造成的障碍,坚持与高扬职业主义精神成为变革之要义。     

The Defense Lawyer,the Accused,and the Procurator

As the matter is generally conceived, it is the accused who needs a defense attorney. Of course, it is he who needs a lawyer above all. But lawyers for the defense are no less essential to the Soviet state in its administration of justice. The administration of justice, the prosecution, and the defense are three functions, clearly differentiated from each other, that are implemented respectively by the court, the procuracy, and the institution of advocates. Together, they are called upon to assure the smooth functioning of the mechanism of struggle against crime.     

IT法律人——马勇律师

民商法学硕士，擅长在增值电信及部分基础电信领域为跨国公司和风险基金提供有关战略投资、市场准入、并购及重组等方面的法律支持。在增值电信领域，马律师过去数年的执业经验涵盖了绝大多数电信业务门类，其中亦包括部分尚未被国内立法正式确认的国际前沿电信业务；     

Lawyer Advertising and the First Amendment

A current Supreme Court case concerning lawyer advertising, In re R.M.J., is analyzed in the context of a discussion of the diverse state regulations governing lawyer advertising and solicitation. The article considers the regulations in terms of their constitutionality, their tendency to impede effective advertising, and the effect they have on the legal profession's provision of information to potential clients about the nature, availability, and cost of legal services. Analysis of the major commercial speech cases, from Virginia State Board of Pharmacy to Central Hudson, indicates that many state rules infringe on attorneys' First Amendment rights.     

论值班律师制度的价值与完善

刑事案件数量的逐年增加使得我国法律援助案多人少的矛盾更加尖锐,而这也是刑事辩护率一直不能得到有效提高的最主要原因之一.值班律师制度的广泛建立旨在解决这一问题,其以减损个案法律援助质量为代价,换取法律援助数量的增长.我国值班律师制度还不够成熟,存在以下问题:值班律师的诉讼身份没有得到明确,严重影响了其诉讼权利的行使;缺乏长效运行机制,值班质量难以保障.因而应当明确值班律师的辩护人身份;以聘请全职值班律师或者与律所签订长期值班合同为手段,建立长效的值班机制.就未来发展而言,需要警惕值班律师制度的滥用,防止损害被援助者的诉讼权益.在将来的制度设计中,应当明确值班律师制度和传统法律援助形式的适用案件范围,保证二者相辅相成.