Description
This sixth edition casebook begins with simply the concept of a profession and continues with discussion of the history, demographics, working conditions, and opportunities of the American legal profession. Subsequent coverage encompasses professional independence and codes, the advocate's role, confidentiality, dilemmas of advocacy, ethics in organizational settings, negotiation and mediation, the counseling role, conflicts of interest, lawyer-client decision making, market regulation, the distribution of legal services, admission to the bar, discipline and malpractice, and legal education. The three authors are affiliated as follows: Deborah L. Rhode (Stanford U.), David Luban (Georgetown U.), and Scott L. Cummings (UCLA). Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Read More
This casebook combines real-life problems, doctrinal and statutory analysis, and carefully edited readings from a wide range of disciplines. Many of the chapters can be used as independent units for courses focusing on ethical problems in corporate practice, tax practice, family law, and public interest law. The sixth edition also includes extensive revisions, deletions, and updating to reflect: Changes in the Model Rules adopted by the American Bar Association or recommended by the Ethics 20/20 Commission Additional Rules reprinted in the text with accompanying commentary Recent cases and new commentary involving conflicts of interest, advocacy, discovery, prosecutorial misconduct, effective assistance of counsel, advertising, admission, and discipline New research on access to justice, discipline, legal education, non-lawyer ownership of law firms, and global trends in regulation of the profession Technological developments that affect regulatory
Read Less