Title: Legal ethics in the practice of law /
Authors: Zitrin, Richard A., 1947-; Langford, Carol M. 1958-; Cole, Liz Ryan, 1947-
Year: 2013
Subjects: Legal ethics United States.
Contents: I. Rules and reflections. 1. Initial reflections on ethics, morality, and justice in an adversary system -- II. The lawyer-client relationship. 2. Undertaking a case -- 3. Communication and confidentiality -- 4. Loyalties and conflicts of interest -- 5. Who controls the case? How should lawyers and clients share decisionmaking? -- III. Balancing the duty of advocacy with the duty to the legal system. 6. What price truth? What price justice? What price advocacy? -- 7. Tactics, free speech, and playing by the rules -- 8. The special problems of the government lawyer -- 9. The lawyer acting as adviser -- IV. The pressures, economics, and diversity of modern practice. 10. The lawyer as part of the law firm structure -- 11. Mental health, substance abuse, and the realities of modern practice -- 12. The economics of lawyering -- V. Other attorney conduct issues. 13. Admissions, discipline, and some other rules of lawyering.