Lawyers on trial
Subtitle: understanding ethical misconduct by California attorneys
By: by Richard L. Abel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9780199760374
Description: Richard L. Abel presents the stories of ten California lawyers who broke the rules: hiring an ex-cop to chase ambulances flouting fee limitations in medical malpractice cases, creating a fictitious company and impersonating non-existent people in order to appropriate Sega's computer games.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of self-regulation; title: Cops chasing ambulances; title: MICRA : unconstitutional until proven otherwise; title: Playing games with Sega; title: Reaching for the brass ring; title: Serving two masters; title: Championing the "defenseless" and "oppressed"; title: Making regulation work.