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: Legal Ethics ForumNewspaper series on dependency court
The San Jose Mercury News is running a powerful series of articles on dependency court in Santa Clara County. You could use the series as a supplement text -- if not the main text -- in a PR or family law course. There are articles about how zeal is tempered (or eliminated) in the system, for better or worse; how judges treat their assignment to the court; about procedural innovations; and much more.
Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on February 12, 2008 (boomark / email).
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