Ethics and the Legal Profession

by Michael Davis, Frederick A. Elliston (Editor)

Contains articles that explore confrontations in the daily practice of law, employing case studies. This text is divided into 6 sections, each dealing with an important issue: the Structure of the Profession; the Moral Critique of Professionalism; the Adversary System; Conflict of Interest; Client Confidences; and, the Provision of Legal Services.

Contents:
Legal profession and its ethical responsibilities : a history / David R. Papke --
Ethics of ethics tests for lawyers / Frederick A. Elliston --
Discipline within the legal profession / F. Raymond Marks and Darlene Cathcart --
Lawyers as professionals : some moral issues / Richard Wasserstrom --
Lawyer as friend / Charles Fried --
Moral responsibility in professional ethics / Gerald J. Postema --
Professional responsibility : report of the joint committee / Lon L. Fuller and John D. Randall --
Adversary system : who needs it? / Edmund Byrne --
Ideology of advocacy : procedural justice and professional ethics / William H. Simon --
Conflict of interest and conflict of obligation / Kenneth Kipnis --
Lawyer for the situation / Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. --
Professional responsibility : problems of divorce mediation / Linda J. Silberman --
Professional responsibility of the criminal defense lawyer : the three hardest questions / Monroe H. Freedman --
Criminal defendant who proposes perjury / Norman Lefstein --
Confidentiality and the lawyer-client relationship / Bruce M. Landesman --
Mandatory pro bono / Steven B. Rosenfeld --
Problems of clean hands / Michael D. Bayles --
Right to refuse a case / Michael Davis

495 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1986

About the author

Librarian note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. This profile may contain books from multiple authors of this name.