The Model Rules of Professional Conduct for lawyers, upon which nearly all fifty state supreme courts base their legal ethics codes, direct lawyers to pursue the public good in their role as "public citizen[s] with special responsibility for justice." Yet, the lawyer as a public citizen is...

The language used to describe work-family issues reflects certain ways of thinking about the interconnectedness and segmentation of work and family. quot;Accommodatequot; or quot;accommodationquot; is a word that is often used in discussions about policies that apply to work and family. This...

Using school leave legislation as the focus for analysis, this article proposes 'empowerment identity' approach to work-family legislation as an alternative or complement to the commonly used accomodation and antidiscrimination approaches. In many households, working parents struggle to meet...

Numerous IT adoption studies within the AEC industry identify issues with individuals resisting IT changes. Current change models often only look at organizations and tasks and frequently neglect the individuals involved. The limitations in existing change models and the criticality of people...

We describe a circular location model in which consumers are distributed according to a symmetric, single-peaked distribution function. Optimal location choices are described and it is determined that equilibria are possible only with one or two firms. Firm strategy is also discussed for greater...