Meeting Legal Needs of Ordinary Citizens

Not long ago at a bar association meeting I met a lawyer who introduced his practice to me by stating, “I’m a lawyer for normal people.”  He went on to explain he did not charge a lot and tried very hard to meet the legal needs of the average person.  I have never met...

Affordable Live Interactive High Quality Legal Education

A recent article published by the American Bar Association, Solving the Other Legal Education Crisis, by Darth Vaughn and Casey Flaherty proposes that “the bar can do quite a bit to ensure that law students do not graduate with such a crushing debt burden,” and should...

Professor Adam Lippe Reflects on The Role of a Prosecutor

Reflecting on 2016, St. Francis School of Law Professor Adam Lippe, a career prosecutor in Baltimore, Maryland, indicates that the biggest issue in the criminal law world is the role of the prosecutor, not just as an advocate, but as a “minister of justice”.  ...