This reference alerts the practitioner to the many ethical putfalls that may be encountered in any part of modern litigation, from the initial interview to argument on appeal. The authors catalog litigation tactics that have ethical implications, explain their practical significance, and provide suggestions for appropriate response to an opponents misconduct, and other topics.

Trial Ethics

Fortune, William H.

Underwood, Richard H.

Rules & Procedures

Little. Brown and Company

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.

Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy

Imwinkelried, Edward J.

Aspen Law & Business

This engrossing text examines the legal system through the use of psychological concepts, methods, and research results. It seeks to clarify the basic dilemmas that persist in the legal system and looks at the ethical, moral, legal, and psychological "gray areas" of the law including coverage of such topics as: competence to stand trial, pretrial publicity and resulting changes in venue, criminal profiling, civil case law and civil procedures, the rights of children, capital punishment, the psychology of criminal trials, the insanity defense, expert forensic testimony, and analysis of eyewitness identification and lineup procedures. This edition balances discussion of the legal system with psychological theory, concepts, and research.

Psychology and the Legal System

Wrightsman, Lawrence S.

Nietzel, Michael T.

Self-Help

Wadsworth Publishing

This engrossing text examines the legal system through the use of psychological concepts, methods, and research results. It seeks to clarify the basic dilemmas that persist in the legal system and looks at the ethical, moral, legal, and psychological "gray areas" of the law, including coverage of such topics as: competence to stand trial, pretrial publicity and resulting changes in venue, criminal profiling, civil case law and civil procedures, the rights of children, capital punishment, the psychology of criminal trials, the insanity defense, expert forensic testimony, and analysis of eyewitness identification and lineup procedures. This thoroughly updated edition balances discussion of the legal system with psychological theory, concepts, and research. This edition includes compelling new coverage of many topics, research issues, and recent trials.

Psychology and the Legal System (with InfoTrac)

Lawrence S. Wrightsman, Michael T. Nietzel, William H. Fortune

This engrossing text examines the legal system through the use of psychological concepts, methods, and research results. It seeks to clarify the basic dilemmas that persist in the legal system and looks at the ethical, moral, legal, and psychological "gray areas" of the law, including coverage of such topics as: competence to stand trial, pretrial publicity and resulting changes in venue, criminal profiling, civil case law and civil procedures, the rights of children, capital punishment, the psychology of criminal trials, the insanity defense, expert forensic testimony, and analysis of eyewitness identification and line-up procedures. This thoroughly updated edition balances discussion of the legal system with psychological theory, concepts, and research.

Greene, Edith

The author team for WRIGHTSMAN'S PSYCHOLOGY AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM, Sixth Edition combines complementary expertise, active research, writing careers, and real world experience (as consultants working within the legal system) to produce a comprehensive text that is unparalleled in scholarship and writing style. The authorship, research base and comprehensive coverage make this text popular with instructors and students. This text demonstrates the importance of psychology to understanding the legal system and the impact on individuals' everyday lives through the use of real cases and questions formed to create discussions of these cases.

Wrightsman’s Psychology and the Legal System

Heilbrun, Kirk

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Trial Ethics

Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy

Psychology and the Legal System

Psychology and the Legal System (with InfoTrac)

Psychology and the Legal System

Wrightsman’s Psychology and the Legal System