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Inside lawyers' ethics

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2007Description: xvii, 269p. ill. 23cmISBN:
  • 9780521546645
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 174.30994 $2 22
Partial contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of illustrations -- List of case studies -- List of statutes -- Table of cases
Introduction, values in practice -- Alternatives to adverserial advocacy -- The responsibility climate, regulation of lawyers' ethics -- Civil litigation and excessive adverserialism -- Ethics in criminal justice, proof and truth -- Ethics in negotiation and alternative dispute resolution -- Conflicting loyalties -- Lawyers' fees and costs, billing and over-charging -- Corporate lawyers and corporate misconduct -- Conclusion, personal professionalism, personal values and legal professionalism.
Summary: Textbook is designed to help law students and new lawyers understand and modify their own ethical priorities, with the intention of making them better practitioners, but also because ethical practice improves the entire legal process. Features a range of case studies on ethical concerns from Australian case law and seeks to clarify routes for dealing with cases that challenge personal ethics. Looks at the values of current practice and suggests ethical alternatives for the legal practitioner.
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Book London Books 174.30994 PAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 30076226

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of illustrations -- List of case studies -- List of statutes -- Table of cases

Introduction, values in practice -- Alternatives to adverserial advocacy -- The responsibility climate, regulation of lawyers' ethics -- Civil litigation and excessive adverserialism -- Ethics in criminal justice, proof and truth -- Ethics in negotiation and alternative dispute resolution -- Conflicting loyalties -- Lawyers' fees and costs, billing and over-charging -- Corporate lawyers and corporate misconduct -- Conclusion, personal professionalism, personal values and legal professionalism.

Textbook is designed to help law students and new lawyers understand and modify their own ethical priorities, with the intention of making them better practitioners, but also because ethical practice improves the entire legal process. Features a range of case studies on ethical concerns from Australian case law and seeks to clarify routes for dealing with cases that challenge personal ethics. Looks at the values of current practice and suggests ethical alternatives for the legal practitioner.

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