Mastering professional responsibility /
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| Author / Creator: | Giesel, Grace M. |
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| Imprint: | Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2009. |
| Description: | xxxvii, 415 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Carolina Academic Press mastering series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7689992 |
Table of Contents:
- Sources of professional responsibility law
- Admission to the Bar
- The discipline process and jurisdiction for discipline
- Basis of duty: the lawyer-client relationship
- Competence and diligence
- Malpractice and other civil liability
- Ineffective assistance of counsel
- Scope of the representation and communication with the client
- Fees
- Dealing with the property of clients and third parties
- Refusing or ending a lawyer-client relationship
- Sale of a practice
- Organizational clients
- Clients with diminished capacity
- The duty of confidentiality
- The attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine
- Introduction to conflicts of interest
- Conflicts and current clients
- Conflicts and former clients
- Conflicts and prospective clients
- Conflict of interest rules for particular situations
- Conflicts and lawyers who are public officials or other government employees
- Conflicts and former judges, other adjudicative officers, law clerks, and third-party neutrals
- Lawyer evaluation of a client's matter for a third party
- A lawyer as a third-party neutral
- Frivolous positions
- The duty to expedite litigation
- Honesty and candor
- Fairness
- Impartiality
- Publicity relating to trials
- The lawyer witness
- The lawyer as prosecutor
- Duties in nonadjudicative proceedings
- Truthfulness to third parties
- Contact with represented persons
- Respect for the rights of nonclients
- Supervision and responsibility for other lawyers, nonlawyer employees, and other assistants
- Professional independence
- The unauthorized practice of law
- Restrictions on a lawyer's right to practice law
- Ancillary businesses
- Pro bono service
- Legal services organizations, law reform, and legal services programs
- Communications about lawyer services
- Paying to play: political contributions
- Judicial candidates and statements about judges
- General misconduct
- The duty to report misconduct.