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Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law
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Covering all of the essential issues and topics, Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, Second Edition, offers straightforward exposition and a combination of principal cases and real-case problems that generate lively class discussion and encourage strategic analysis.Engage your students with a contemporary approach that features:
- thorough coverage of the ethics codes and other law governing lawyers, including legal malpractice, disqualification, wrongful discharge, and criminal malfeasance
- concise, clear explanation of lawyer law in a readable question and answer format
- an overview of the American legal profession and the challenges facing lawyers in the 21st century
- more than 70 engaging problems for classroom discussion, some based on court opinions, others based on actual situations encountered by lawyers and law students
- principal cases edited with care and presented with questions for discussion
- tables and conceptual outlines that highlight relationships, illustrate concepts, and aid memory
- photos of many lawyers and parties discussed in the text
- more than 20 New Yorker cartoons illustrating classic ethical dilemmas
Thoroughly updated, the Second Edition now has a more flexible organization and coverage of important recent developments in the law, rules, and code, including:
- updates reflecting recent revision of the state Rules of Professional Conduct in response to the Ethics 2000 Commission
- new material on lawyers as counselors, the special duties of prosecutors, lawyer advertising, aggregate and class action settlements, and the revised Model Code of Judicial Conduct
- new problems and cases
- discussion of government challenges to the corporate attorney-client privilege
- pedagogical fine-tuning based on feedback from scores of enthusiastic adopters and students at more than eighty US law schools
Respected scholars Lerman and Schrag have created an accessible, problem-based casebook that generates rich classroom discussion in courses in Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
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| Author: Professor Lisa G. .. | Publisher: Aspen Publishers, .. | Binding: Hardcover | Language: English | Pages: 976 |
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