Lawyers in practice
Subtitle: ethical decision making in context
By: edited by Leslie C. Levin and Lynn Mather
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780226475158; 9780226475165
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Prosecution; Legal ethics; Decision making
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introductory perspectives on ethics in context; title: Why context matters/ Lynn Mather and Leslie C. Levin; title: Some realism about legal realism for lawyers: assessing the role of context in legal ethics / David B. Wilkins; title: Whose ethics? The benchmark problem in legal ethics research / Elizabeth Chambliss; title: Decision making in communities of legal practice; title: Family and immigration; title: Client grievances and lawyer conduct: the challenges of divorce practice / Lynn Mather and Craig A. McEwen; title: Immigration lawyers and the lying client / Leslie C. Levin; title: Personal injury: Plaintiffs' lawyers and the tension between professional norms and the need to generate business / Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin; title: Betwixt and between: the ethical dilemmas of insurance defense / Herbert M. Kritzer; title: Corporate settings; title: The ethics of constructing truth: the corporate litigator's approach / Kimberly Kirkland; title: Transnational lawyering: clients, ethics, and regulation / John Flood; title: The ethics of in-house practice / Sung Hui Kim; title: Corporate specialties; title: The ethical lives of securities lawyers / Patrick Schmidt; title: Scientists at the bar: the professional world of patent lawyers / John M. Conley and Lynn Mather; title: Criminal law; title: Prosecutors' ethics in context: influences on prosecutorial disclosure / Ellen Yaroshefsky and Bruce A. Green; title: Reinterpreting the zealous advocate: multiple intermediary roles of the criminal defense attorney / Nicole Martorano van Cleve; title: Public interest lawyers; title: Legal services lawyers: when conceptions of lawyering and values clash / Corey S. Shdaimah; title: The accountability problem in public interest practice: old paradigms and new directions / Scott l. Cummings; title: Epilogue.