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Charles E. Rounds Jr, Fiduciary Consultant
For 35 years and counting I have been practicing, teaching, and writing almost exclusively in that corner of the law that relates to the fiduciary duties and liabilities of trustees and agents.
Charles E. Rounds Jr, Fiduciary Consultant Features
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posted on 2 Nov 2011 | Group NewsIn the 112 years since its first publication, Augustus Peabody Loring’s compact A Trustee's Handbook has come to be regarded as the most convenient, reliable, and complete source for trust...
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posted on 3 May 2012 | Group NewsIn a letter to the editor of The Wall Street Journal (April 26, 2012, at A14), Charles E. Rounds, Jr. refutes the suggestion made by Prof. Alan S. Blinder of Princeton University in an April 20, 2012...
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posted on 9 Apr 2012 | News storyUnless the fiduciary issues and the representation issues in a trust dispute are properly sorted out in advance, there is a very real risk that an ill-considered rush to mediate or arbitrate will...
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posted on 21 Mar 2012 | ArticleIt is coming on a decade since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the IOLTA scheme constitutes a collective taking by the state of the property of clients. Still the scheme continues. Nothing has...
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posted on 1 Feb 2012 | ArticleNext year, 2013, marks the 20th anniversary of the judicial/political resolution of the final controversy over the administration and disposition of a certain Massachusetts-sited trust established...
Other news from Charles E. Rounds Jr, Fiduciary Consultant
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posted on 3 Jan 2012 | ArticleThough the trust is a judge-made creature of equity, the last eighty years have seen numerous rounds of uniform legislation codifying various aspects of the law of trusts, beginning with the Uniform...
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posted on 14 Dec 2011 | Group NewsIn a letter in today’s Wall Street Journal, law professor Charles Rounds, who has written for the Pope Center on the erosion of the law school curriculum, points to an 1830 court decision that...
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posted on 2 Dec 2011 | ArticleSince the 1960s, the trust has been under attack on two fronts in the American law school. First, the traditional Trusts course has been down-graded to elective status, a misguided curricular “...
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posted on 2 Nov 2011 | ArticleThe process of paralegalizing the American legal academy is now complete. It was inevitable. A course in Contracts does not a complete lawyer make. The curricular marginalization of two of the other...
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posted on 12 Oct 2011 | ArticleIn an article published on line in 2010, Charles E. Rounds, Jr. suggested that the expansion of legal writing programs in the law schools at the expense of instruction in core legal doctrine is why...

