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Ethical Problems In The Practice Of Law (Casebook)

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• thorough coverage of the ethics codes and other law governing lawyers, including legal malpractice, disqualification, wrongful discharge, and criminal malfeasance
• concise, clear explanation of lawyer law in a readable question and answer format
• an overview of the American legal profession and the challenges facing lawyers in the 21st century
• more than 70 engaging problems for classroom discussion, some based on court opinions, others based on actual situations encountered by lawyers and law students
• principal cases edited with care and presented with questions for discussion
• tables and conceptual outlines that highlight relationships, illustrate concepts, and aid memory
• photos of many lawyers and parties discussed in the text
• more than 20 New Yorker cartoons illustrating classic ethical dilemmas

• updates reflecting recent revision of the state Rules of Professional Conduct in response to the Ethics 2000 Commission
• new material on lawyers as counselors, the special duties of prosecutors, lawyer advertising, aggregate and class action settlements, and the revised Model Code of Judicial Conduct
• new problems and cases
• discussion of government challenges to the corporate attorney-client privilege
• pedagogical fine-tuning based on feedback from scores of enthusiastic adopters and students at more than eighty US law schools