Regulation of lawyers : problems of law and ethics /

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Author / Creator:Gillers, Stephen, 1943- author.
Edition:Twelfth edition.
Imprint:New York : Wolters Kluwer, [2020]
©2021
Description:xxxiii, 731 pages ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Aspen casebook series
Aspen casebook series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12513734
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ISBN:9781543825862
1543825869
9781543825879
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Professional Responsibility casebook with problems/notes and engaging mix of materials"--
Table of Contents:
  • The what, who, how, and why of "legal ethics"
  • The attorney-client relationship
  • Defining the attorney-client relationship
  • Protecting the attorney-client relationship against outside interference
  • Lawyers, money, and the ethics of legal fees
  • Concurrent conflicts of interest
  • Successive conflicts of interest
  • Ethics in advocacy
  • Special issues in criminal prosecutions
  • Negotiation and transactional matters
  • Lawyers for companies and other organizations
  • Judges
  • Avoiding and redressing professional failure
  • Control of quality: reducing the likelihood of professional failure
  • Control of quality: remedies for professional failure
  • Control of quality: nonlawyers in the law business (and related issues)
  • First speech rights of lawyers and judicial candidates
  • Marketing legal services.