Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook

Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook The Limits of Zealous Advocacy

2nd Edition

Hardback (25 Oct 2000)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

  • Book information

    ISBN: 9780735516281
    Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
    Imprint: Aspen Law & Business
    Pub date:
    Edition: 2nd Edition
    DEWEY: 174.30973
    DEWEY edition: 21
    Number of pages: 785
    Weight: 1306g
    Height: 240mm
    Width: 234mm
    Spine width: 43mm