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Paula Schaefer

Associate Professor of Law
B.A. and J.D., University of Missouri-Columbia


Publications

Law Review Articles and Essays

Injecting Law Student Drama Into the Classroom: Transforming an E-Discovery Class (or Any Law School Class) with a Complex, Student-Generated Simulation, __ Nev. L. J. __ (forthcoming 2012).

Harming Business Clients with Zealous Advocacy: Rethinking the Attorney Advisor’s Touchstone, 38 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 251 (2011).

The Future of Inadvertent Disclosure: The Lingering Need to Revise Professional Conduct Rules, 69 Md. L. Rev. 109 (2010) (lead article).

Protecting a Business Entity Client from Itself through Loyal Disclosure, 118 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 152 (2009).

Refereed Business Law Journal Articles

Business Litigation in the Electronic Age: Recognizing and Addressing the Hazards of Privilege Disclosure Orders, Midwest Law J. 61 (2008).

Overcoming Noneconomic Barriers to Loyal Disclosure, 44 Am. Bus. L. J. 417 (2007). 
The Fiduciary’s Duty to Make “Permissive” Disclosure of Confidential Client Information to Protect the Organizational Client, Ethics & Critical Thinking Quarterly Journal, Vol. 2005, Issue 2, 68 (2005).

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Fraud as a Theme for Teaching Business Law, Midwest Acad. Leg. Stud. in Bus. Proc. (2008). 

Using Case Law to Teach Business Ethics: How Studying the “Ethical Minimum” Can Help Students Develop Ethical (and Legal) Decision Making Skills, Midwest Acad. Leg. Stud. in Bus. Proc. 106 (2007).

The Negative Implications of Inconsistent Confidentiality Rules Among the States in 2006: An Argument for the Uniform Adoption of the 2003 Amendments to Model Rules 1.6 and 1.13, Midwest Acad. Leg. Stud. in Bus. Proc. . 1 (2006).

Confidentiality and In-House Counsel’s Cause of Action for Retaliatory Discharge, 34 Acad. Leg. Stud. in  Bus. Nat’l Proc. (2005).