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Title
Lawyers' Ethics.
Edition
First edition.
Imprint
London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Description
1 online resource
Formatted Contents Note
part Part I: The Legal Profession's Role in American Society
chapter A. The United States: A Unique Government of Lawyers
chapter B. The Role of the Lawyer in America
chapter C Attack on Lawyers and the Legal Profession
chapter D. Access to the American Legal System in Historical Perspective
chapter E. Legal Education
part Part II: Lawyers and the Search for Truth: Conflict or Harmony?
chapter A. The Art of Legal Advocacy: Duties and Obligations
chapter B. The Lawyer as a Hired Gun
chapter C The Adversary Nature of the American Legal System: A Historical Perspective
chapter D. The Search for Truth: An Umpireal View
chapter E. The Attorney's Duty to Disclose the Commission of Criminal Acts-Two Views of the Lake Pleasant Case
chapter F. Attempting to Regulate Perjurious Testimony: The Massachusetts Experience
chapter G. Perjury: Stay In or Pull Out?
part Part III: Regulating Professional Ethics: The Alger Hiss Reinstatement Controversy
chapter A. The Brief for the Petitioner, Alger Hiss
chapter B. Judgment of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
chapter C Reinstatement Dilemma: The Hiss Decision and Its Effects upon Disciplinary Enforcement
part Part IV: Special Prespectives
chapter A. The Washington Lawyer: Some Musings
chapter B. The International Lawyer: Extra-territorial Application of Profes-sional Responsibility Standards
chapter C Ethics in Medicine and Law: Standards and Conflicts
chapter Contributors' Acknowledgments.
chapter A. The United States: A Unique Government of Lawyers
chapter B. The Role of the Lawyer in America
chapter C Attack on Lawyers and the Legal Profession
chapter D. Access to the American Legal System in Historical Perspective
chapter E. Legal Education
part Part II: Lawyers and the Search for Truth: Conflict or Harmony?
chapter A. The Art of Legal Advocacy: Duties and Obligations
chapter B. The Lawyer as a Hired Gun
chapter C The Adversary Nature of the American Legal System: A Historical Perspective
chapter D. The Search for Truth: An Umpireal View
chapter E. The Attorney's Duty to Disclose the Commission of Criminal Acts-Two Views of the Lake Pleasant Case
chapter F. Attempting to Regulate Perjurious Testimony: The Massachusetts Experience
chapter G. Perjury: Stay In or Pull Out?
part Part III: Regulating Professional Ethics: The Alger Hiss Reinstatement Controversy
chapter A. The Brief for the Petitioner, Alger Hiss
chapter B. Judgment of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
chapter C Reinstatement Dilemma: The Hiss Decision and Its Effects upon Disciplinary Enforcement
part Part IV: Special Prespectives
chapter A. The Washington Lawyer: Some Musings
chapter B. The International Lawyer: Extra-territorial Application of Profes-sional Responsibility Standards
chapter C Ethics in Medicine and Law: Standards and Conflicts
chapter Contributors' Acknowledgments.
Summary
"Frequently the ethical attorney finds himself in a position where he can no longer reconcile con-flicting responsibilities he owes to his clients with those he owes so-ciety and himself. Faced with the dilemma of choice among coun-tervailing and competing obliga-tions, he has little training and precedence to guide him. If he is over forty, the overwhelming probability is that he never took a course on legal ethics; if he looks for a general, up-to-date text to provide insight, he will look in vain. Nor is there a developed body of case law from which to glean an appropriate course of action.This vacuum of authoritative formulations of responsible be-havior is a matter of concern not only to the legal profession, but to all sectors of American society. Lawyers shape the mores and thoughts of all of us. Their will is exerted not only in modifying our national institutions, but ulti-mately our individual, personal sense of values.This volume serves two impor-tant purposes: it provides the interested professional and lay reader with an appreciation of thespectrum of the ethical dilemmas confronting the legal profession, and it provides a sense of balance about the competing consid-erations present in each of these dilemmas. At a time when the legal profession is under attack both from within and without, this book represents some of the best critical thinking by lawyers about their role and responsibilities in American society."--Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
ISBN
9780203787496 (e-book : PDF)
9781351509459 (e-book: Mobi)
9780878552931 (hardback)
9781138511590 (paperback)
9781351509459 (e-book: Mobi)
9780878552931 (hardback)
9781138511590 (paperback)
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