Hot topics in the legal profession, 2010
By: edited by Steven Alan Childress
Series: Benefit Tulane PILF series
Publisher: Quid Pro Law Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Orleans, La
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781610279901
Subjects: Legal ethics; Attorney and client; Practice of law
Description: "A timely collection of student studies on current events in legal ethics and the U.S. legal profession, discussing issues both important and changing during 2009-2010."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Intersecting the First Amendment, ethics, and the Internet : memo to other states from the Louisiana experience; title: "Friends," episode 1 : the ethical pitfalls of lawyers getting "friendly" online; title: "Friends," episode 2 : the wisdom of discretionary recusal and the judge as actual friend; title: "Friends," episode 3 : appearance of impropriety, judges on Facebook, and the modern day contact Rolodex; title: The problem of circumventing the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act by using the ancillary business model; title: Canary in a coal mine : how Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. demonstrates the need for oxygen and reform in the State Supreme Courts; title: Negotiation ethics : balancing ethically permissible conduct with integrity and professionalism in settlement talks.