Mastering professional responsibility
By: Grace M. Giesel.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9781594603907
Subjects: Legal ethics -- United States; Attorney and client -- United States; Practice of law -- United States
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Sources of professional responsibility law; title: Admission to the Bar; title: Discipline; title: Basis of duty: the lawyer-client relationship; title: Competence and diligence; title: Malpractice and other civil liability to clients; title: Ineffective assistance of counsel; title: Scope of the representation and communication with the client; title: Fees; title: Dealing with the property of clients and third parties; title: Refusing or ending a lawyer-client relationship; title: Sale of a practice; title: Clients with diminished capacity; title: The duty of confidentiality; title: The attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine; title: Introduction to conflicts of interest concepts; title: Conflicts and current clients; title: Conflicts and former clients; title: Conflicts and prospective clients; title: Conflict of interest rules for particular situations; title: Conflicts and lawyers who are public officials or other government employees; title: Conflicts and former judges, other adjudicative officers, law clerks, and third party neutrals; title: Lawyer evaluation of a client's matter for a third party; title: A lawyer as a third-party neutral; title: Frivolous positions; title: Duty to expedite litigation; title: Honesty and candor; title: Fairness; title: Impartiality; title: Publicity relating to trials; title: The lawyer witness; title: The lawyer as prosecutor; title: Duties in nonadjudicative proceedings; title: Truthfulness to third parties; title: Contact with represented persons; title: Respect for the rights of nonclients; title: Supervision and responsibility for other lawyers, nonlawyer employees, and other assistants; title: Professional independence; title: The unauthorized practice of law; title: Restrictions on a lawyer's right to practice law; title: Ancillary businesses; title: Pro bono service; title: Legal services organizations, law reform, and legal services programs; title: Communications about lawyer services; title: Paying to play: political contributions; title: Judicial candidates and statements about judges; title: General misconduct; title: The duty to report misconduct.