The recent history of the legal profession is presented as one where the re-regulation of the profession, as epitomized in the Legal Services Act 2007, has placed the large law firm at the centre as a site of regulation in its own right. The legal profession has redefined its professional character from that of autonomous producers to employed lawyers who now exercise discretion within tightly ...

Service-oriented computing as a concept for providing interoperability and flexibility within heterogeneous environments has gained much attention within last years. Dynamically integrating external Web services into enterprise applications requires automatic contracting between service requestors and providers and automatic contract monitoring. This paper suggests semi-automatic approach since...

Legal and illegal immigrants are concentrated in U.S. border states. This paper asks to what extent geographic clustering is attributable to differences in state-provided public aid. California has been shown to have a disproportionate number of legal immigrant welfare users, but little evidence exists concerning illegal persons. Illegal immigrants may collect welfare benefits on behalf of lega...

Legal Knowledge Management – Chair Ugo Pagallo • 17.00-17.20 Daniela Tiscornia, Tommaso Agnoloni and Maria Teresa Sagri. Balancing rights and values in the Italian Courts (FULL) • 17.25-17.45 Radboud Winkels and Jelle Ruyter. Survival of the fittest: Network Analysis of Dutch Supreme Court Cases (FULL) • 17.50-18.10 Guido Boella, Llio Humphreys, Marco Martin, Piercarlo Rossi and Leendert Van De...

Drafting successful legal documents requires experienced lawyers, careful research, and nuanced reasoning. Nonetheless, drafting also requires many mundane and time intensive tasks that delay the process and increase its cost. One consequence of this is that law firms hire a large number of support employees to assist with these low-level tasks. According to US Bureau of Labor Statistics data r...

This Article suggests that our failure to focus on the possible need for representation in mediation and arbitration is fundamentally misguided. Although legal representation is no doubt more important in some contexts than others, it is wrong to make the binary assumption that legal representation is always more important in litigation than in ADR processes; legal representation may often be c...

Introduction. Major health issues and barriers to health services for Latino immigrants were identified through community-based participatory research in Baltimore city. Methods. In collaboration with community partners, five focus groups were conducted among Latino adults from 10 countries and health service providers. Findings. Priorities across groups included chronic diseases, HIV/AIDS and ...

OBJECTIVES Access to legal advocacy is an essential tool to help cancer patients and survivors through the continuum of care. This article examines delivery models that can seamlessly integrate into patient navigation programs. DATA SOURCES Technical reports, books, journal articles, and Web sites. CONCLUSION Psychosocial obstacles are common barriers of low-income individuals facing a canc...

P2P services made music sharing popular. Users got used to get the songs they want for free, and use it freely, without restrictions. With some years of delay, online music retailers started to sell legal digital song files, mainly with DRM protection. Recent studies shows that P2P networks continue to grow, attracting more and more users. In this scenario, this work is dedicated to find out so...

Interoperability is a crucial issue, as large scale applications mainly depend on the possibility of mapping and connecting different models and structures. In the context of public services organization, achieving interoperability among public sector information means, on the one hand (back office), enabling dialogue among public offices, sharing data, standardising structures and models, conn...