Regulation of the Legal Profession: The Essentials

by Stephen Gillers

Overview

Offering big-picture perspective on Professional Responsibility, this brief introduction illuminates essential concepts with Stephen Gillers’ characteristic expertise and clarity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780735577381
Publisher:	Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Publication date:	09/14/2009
Series:	Essentials Series
Edition description:	Third Edition, New Edition
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Briefly, By Way of Introduction...

1: What Are Legal Ethics?

PART I: THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP

2. What Lawyers Owe Clients: An Introduction
3. What Lawyers Owe Clients: Competence
4. What Lawyers Owe Clients: Confidentiality
5. Privilege and Confidentiality for Organizational Clients
6. What Lawyers Owe Clients: Other Attributes of the Attorney-Client Relationship
7. How the Law Protects the Attorney-Client Relationship
8. Lawyers and Money

PART II: CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

9. Conflicts of Interest: An Introduction
10. Current Client Conflicts
11. Special Current Client Conflict Rules
12. Former Client Conflicts
13. Imputation of Conflicts
14. Lawyers in Government
15. Consents to Conflict

PART III: RULES FOR TRIAL LAWYERS

16. Ethics in Advocacy
17. Special Rules for Real Evidence
18. The “No-Comment” Rule

PART IV: OTHER SPECIAL RULES AND RELATIONSHIPS

19. Transactional Lawyers
20. Lawyers for Organizations
21. Virtual (or Vicarious) Clients
22. Judges

PART V: QUALITY ASSURANCE

23. Admission to the Bar
24. Lawyer Liability
25. Discipline
26. Restrictions on Advertising and Solicitation