The Rule Of Lawyers

Author : Walter K. Olson
Publisher : Truman Talley Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429979085
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rule of Lawyers written by Walter K. Olson and published by Truman Talley Books. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big-ticket litigation is a way of life in this country. But something new is afoot--something typified by the $246 billion tobacco settlement, and by courtroom assaults that have followed against industries ranging from HMOs to gunmakers, from lead paint manufacturers to "factory farms." Each massive class-action suit seeks to invent new law, to ban or tax or regulate something that elected lawmakers had chosen to leave alone. And each time the new process works as intended, the new litigation elite reaps billions in fees--which they invest in fresh rounds of suits, as well as political contributions. The Rule of Lawyers asks: Who picks these lawyers, and who can fire them? Who protects the public's interest when settlements are negotiated behind closed doors? Where are our elected lawmakers in all this? The answers may determine whether we slip from the rule of law to the rule of lawyers.

Author : American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781590318737
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Author : Yves Dezalay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136828745
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lawyers and the Rule of Law in an Era of Globalization written by Yves Dezalay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.
Publisher : Aspen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780131084742
Total Pages : 1868 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of Lawyering written by Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Ann Glendon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674601383
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Nation Under Lawyers written by Mary Ann Glendon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Ann Glendon's A Nation Under Lawyers is a guided tour through the maze of the late-twentieth-century legal world. Glendon depicts the legal profession as a system in turbulence, where a variety of beliefs and ideals are vying for dominance.

Author : William H. Simon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674043669
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Practice of Justice written by William H. Simon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should a lawyer keep a client's secret even when disclosure would exculpate a person wrongly accused of crime? The Practice of Justice is a fresh look at this and other traditional questions about the ethics of lawyering.

Author : Mona Harrington
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307831566
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Lawyers written by Mona Harrington and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very presence of women in the law—normal as it may seem to us today—signals revolutionary change in a social order that for centuries entrusted control over its rules to men. Mona Harrington examines both the problems women meet when they claim equal authority as rule makers, and the impact of new perspectives and issues that women bring with them into the profession. On the basis of more than one hundred interviews with women lawyers, judges, law school professors, and law students, and through the stories of their daily experiences, Harrington pinpoints and analyzes the key factors holding women back in a profession still dominated by males—among them the “men’s club” ambience, the focus on billable hours, sexual harassment and the inequality it perpetuates, lingering unequal division of labor at home, and hostile media images of women in positions of power. She shows us what life is like for women lawyers in practice today and how their dilemmas reflect the social issues of our time. She gives us the voices of women who have adapted to the cultural codes of corporate law and women who have broken them; women who have successfully balanced their professional and private lives and women who feel trapped by the combination of long hours at the office and full responsibility at home. She introduces us to women in new and alternative firms, on the faculties of small public law schools, in in-house legal departments, in prosecutors’ offices and courtrooms—women who are devising new rules and legal theories to bring about change. Women Lawyers is must reading for every woman in the midst of—or contemplating—a career in the law, and for the men who work with them.

Author : W. Bradley Wendel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691156212
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lawyers and Fidelity to Law written by W. Bradley Wendel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even lawyers who obey the law often seem to act unethically--interfering with the discovery of truth, subverting justice, and inflicting harm on innocent people. Standard arguments within legal ethics attempt to show why it is permissible to do something as a lawyer that it would be wrong to do as an ordinary person. But in the view of most critics these arguments fail to turn wrongs into rights. Even many lawyers think legal ethics is flawed because it does not accurately describe the considerable moral value of their work. In Lawyers and Fidelity to Law, Bradley Wendel introduces a new conception of legal ethics that addresses the concerns of lawyers and their critics alike. Wendel proposes an ethics grounded on the political value of law as a collective achievement that settles intractable conflicts, allowing people who disagree profoundly to live together in a peaceful, stable society. Lawyers must be loyal and competent client representatives, Wendel argues, but these obligations must always be exercised within the law that constitutes their own roles and confers rights and duties upon their clients. Lawyers act unethically when they treat the law as an inconvenient obstacle to be worked around and when they twist and distort it to help their clients do what they are not legally entitled to do. Lawyers and Fidelity to Law challenges lawyers and their critics to reconsider the nature and value of ethical representation.

Author : Yoav Dotan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107038995
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lawyering for the Rule of Law written by Yoav Dotan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the relationship between judicial activism and government lawyers.

Author : Stephen Gillers
Publisher : Aspen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regulation of Lawyers written by Stephen Gillers and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For its Sixth Edition, this extremely popular casebook continues to mix up-to-date materials with realistic problems to illustrate and demonstrate the full range of ethical issues facing lawyers and judges. Regulation of Lawyers builds on the strengths that earned it such widespread adoption: written by Professor Stephen Gillers, a recognized national authority on the subject in-depth, thorough treatment of the issues in a lively, accessible style covers the full range of professional responsibility topics, including conflicts of interest, special lawyer roles, and avoiding and redressing professional failure with three chapters on control of quality realistic problems (many of which are new or revised) help students Understand The rules and regulations that will govern their professional behavior combines cases, law review articles, excerpts from a wide variety of popular sources, and engaging problems to give variety and vividness accompanied by the most comprehensive annual statutory supplement in the field Regulation of Lawyers: Statutes and Standards, co-authored by Roy D. Simon with major, minor, and state variations of the rules governing lawyers and judges the Sixth Edition incorporates important new material: the no-contact and other ethics rules as they apply to state and federal law enforcers proposed changes in the Model Rules of Professional Conduct new cases on excessive fees (Matter of Fordham), using gender biased terms in a deposition (Mullaney v. Aude), liability for securities and common law fraud arising out of a negotiation for investment in a business (Rubin v. Schottenstein, Zox, & Dunn), And The unauthorized practice of law by lawyers from outside a state (Birbrower, Montalbano, Condon & Frank, P.C. v. Superior Court) coverage of the Clinton/Lewinsky matter And The ethical questions raised by the investigation conducted by Ken Starr to give students a clear understanding of their professional responsibilities from the client-lawyer relationship to their First Amendment rights use the casebook that has been proven effective in the classroom: Gillers' Regulation of Lawyers, Sixth Edition .