Legal ethics in the practice of law
By: by Richard A. Zitrin, Carol M. Langford, Nina W. Tarr.
Contributors: Langford, Carol M. 1958-; Tarr, Nina W., 1952-
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: LexisNexis
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Newark, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 865
Subjects: Legal ethics -- United States.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: value: Initial reflections on ethics, morality, and justice in an adversary system; value: Undertaking a case; value: Communication and confidentiality; value: Loyalties and conflicts of interest; value: Who controls the case? How should lawyers and clients share decisionmaking?; value: What price truth? What price justice? What price advocacy?; value: Tactics, free speech, and playing by the rules; value: The special problems of the government lawyer; value: The lawyer acting as advisor; value: The lawyer as part of the law firm structure; value: Mental health, substance abuse, and the realities of modern practice; value: The economics of lawyering; value: Admissions, discipline, and some other rules of lawyering.