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.
