Thus, I fear the end result of allowing third-party financing to flourish is a slow but steady shift away from the traditional understanding of law as a profession toward a conception of law as just another money-making venture, where the investors inevitably call the shots.

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An agency law conception of the board-officer relationship cogently highlights how bewildering and unhealthy this practice really is.

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So will, in important respects, our conception of the rule of law.

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Its members are collecting signatures for a petition to change the law so it defines life as beginning at the moment of conception.

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