Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy, Second Edition
Find practical answers to hard questions about professional conduct — and avoid wrong answers that could set back your firm — with this authoritative guide to legal ethics. Drawing on statutes, standards, and actual cases, the authors show you how to:
  • Evaluate tactics for possible ethical consequences
  • Understand and comply with statutes, procedural rules, and standards of professional conduct while zealously representing your client
  • Prevent your opponents from turning the rules to their own advantage
You'll find concise, authoritative discussion of ethical problems that arise in such critical areas as:
  • Investigation of claims
  • Abuse of discovery
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Burdensome interrogatories
  • Trial in the media
  • Voir dire and juror investigation
  • Deposition tactics
  • Special fee arrangements
  • Settlement negotiations
  • Withdrawal and client confidentiality
  • Arguing false inferences based on inadmissible evidence, plus detailed attention to the special problems that arise in criminal defense, insurance defense, and class actions.
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Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy, Second Edition
Find practical answers to hard questions about professional conduct — and avoid wrong answers that could set back your firm — with this authoritative guide to legal ethics. Drawing on statutes, standards, and actual cases, the authors show you how to:
  • Evaluate tactics for possible ethical consequences
  • Understand and comply with statutes, procedural rules, and standards of professional conduct while zealously representing your client
  • Prevent your opponents from turning the rules to their own advantage
You'll find concise, authoritative discussion of ethical problems that arise in such critical areas as:
  • Investigation of claims
  • Abuse of discovery
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Burdensome interrogatories
  • Trial in the media
  • Voir dire and juror investigation
  • Deposition tactics
  • Special fee arrangements
  • Settlement negotiations
  • Withdrawal and client confidentiality
  • Arguing false inferences based on inadmissible evidence, plus detailed attention to the special problems that arise in criminal defense, insurance defense, and class actions.
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Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy, Second Edition

Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy, Second Edition

Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy, Second Edition

Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy, Second Edition

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Overview

Find practical answers to hard questions about professional conduct — and avoid wrong answers that could set back your firm — with this authoritative guide to legal ethics. Drawing on statutes, standards, and actual cases, the authors show you how to:
  • Evaluate tactics for possible ethical consequences
  • Understand and comply with statutes, procedural rules, and standards of professional conduct while zealously representing your client
  • Prevent your opponents from turning the rules to their own advantage
You'll find concise, authoritative discussion of ethical problems that arise in such critical areas as:
  • Investigation of claims
  • Abuse of discovery
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Burdensome interrogatories
  • Trial in the media
  • Voir dire and juror investigation
  • Deposition tactics
  • Special fee arrangements
  • Settlement negotiations
  • Withdrawal and client confidentiality
  • Arguing false inferences based on inadmissible evidence, plus detailed attention to the special problems that arise in criminal defense, insurance defense, and class actions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780735516281
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Publication date: 10/25/2000
Edition description: 2ND
Pages: 816
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.69(d)

Table of Contents

Part I: Proceedings Before Trial
• Commencing Litigation: Ethics and Accountability
• Commencing Litigation: Judicial Sanctions
• Conflicts of Interest
• The Advocate-Witness Problem
• Investigation
• Discovery
• Lawyers, Free Speech, and the Media
• Trial Tactics - Some Opening Moves

Part II: The Trial
• Relations with Jurors
• The Direct Examiner
• The Cross-Examiner
• Closing Argument

Part III: Special Problems
• Special Problems in the Criminal Defense
• Special Problems in Class Action

Part IV: Some Final Matters
• Negotiation and Settlement
• Withdrawal
• Appeal
• Disciplines, the Court, and Ethics Committees

Table of Cases

Bibliography

Index of Errata

Index

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