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:
<li>Evaluate tactics for possible ethical consequences</li>
<li>Understand and comply with statutes, procedural rules, and standards of professional conduct while zealously representing your client</li>
<li>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:</li>
<li>Investigation of claims</li>
<li>Abuse of discovery</li>
<li>Conflicts of interest</li>
<li>Burdensome interrogatories</li>
<li>Trial in the media</li>
<li>Voir dire and juror investigation</li>
<li>Deposition tactics</li>
<li>Special fee arrangements</li>
<li>Settlement negotiations</li>
<li>Withdrawal and client confidentiality</li>
<li>Arguing false inferences based on inadmissible evidence, plus detailed attention to the special problems that arise in criminal defense, insurance defense, and class actions.</li>

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

Edward J. Imwinkelried

Richard H. Underwood

William H. Fortune

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

Aspen Publishers

Kentucky Evidence Courtroom Manual

Glen Weissenberger

LexisNexis

2018 Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal (True Crime) 2017 Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist (True Crime)Gilded Age New York City is both the venue of and a supporting character in Gaslight Lawyers. Standing in sharp contrast to the Gilded Age mansions and the extravagant lifestyle of the rising American aristocracy was the Gilded Age New York City of crime, corruption, poverty, slums, and tenements teeming with newcomers 
Gaslight Lawyers paints a serious but entertaining portrait of colorful characters, courtroom drama, and the emerging importance of forensic science and medical-legal jurisprudence in Gilded Age New York City.
 From the 1870s to the early 1900s, post-Civil War New York City was becoming a wonder city of commerce and invention, art and architecture, and emerging global prominence. The city and its innocent inhabitants needed to be protected from crime and corruption. Order had to be maintained. Then, as now, malefactors had to be brought to justice. But not every victim was quite so innocent, and not every defendant was as guilty as he (or she) looked.
 The Gaslight Era has been called the Second Golden Age of the New York Bar. The book sheds new light on a gallery of notables of the day, including the exploits of famous William Big Bill Howe and his archrival, Tammany prosecutor Francis Wellman (author of The Art of Cross-Examination), along with trial tactics and ethics of the day skullduggery on both sides. It tells of the passing of the old guard, exemplified by Howe, and the rise of a new generation of criminal defense lawyers, including Emanuel Manny Friend and Abraham Levy, and the aggressive and sometimes ruthless prosecutors William Travers Jerome, William Rand, and James W. Osborne. The book also chronicles judges and politicians, police bungling and corruption, and famous physicians and alienists, like Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton, the grandson of Alexander Hamilton. Other characters, such as photojournalist and reformer Jacob Riis, Tombs Angel Rebecca Salome Foster, and infamous criminals, like Madame Restell the abortionist and Marm Mandelbaum the notorious fence, illuminate the social conditions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century New York City.
 Drawing from the experience of a legal scholar and from a wealth of meticulous research gleaned from trial transcripts, other court records, contemporary newspaper stories, and memoirs, Underwood also reconstructs and recounts the absorbing legal drama of a number of spectacular criminal cases. Among the murder trials are the Nack-Thorn-Guldensuppe scattered body parts case, the trial of Frenchy for the murder of Old Shakespeare (the so-called Jack the Ripper case), the trials of Italian immigrant Maria Barbella, who escaped the electric chair with a defense of psychic epilepsy, the ordeals of the unfortunate Dr. Samuel Kennedy, and the trial of Florodora Girl Nan Patterson for the murder of gambler and man about New York Thomas Caesar Young.
 Gaslight Lawyers is a compelling, witty, and insightful account of an important era in American legal history, individual human experiences and tragedies, and society at large. It reminds us to acknowledge and deal with biases that continue to manifest themselves in our criminal justice systems today and to be mindful that "we are the guardians of the law."

Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials & Exploits in Gilded Age New York

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Shadelandhouse Modern Press

A 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Winner and a 2017 IPPY Book of the Year Awards Silver medalist in Southeast Best Regional Non-Fiction and a Bronze medalist in National Cover Design Nonfiction! CrimeSong plunges readers into a world of violence against women, murders, familicide, suicides, brutal mob action, and many examples of a failed justice system. This compelling investigation of the gripping true crimes behind American ballads dispels myths and legends and brings to life a cast of characters both loathsome and innocent shadowy history, courtroom dramas, murders, mayhem and music. Although these ballads and stories are set in specific times, cultures, and places, they present timeless, universal themes of love, betrayal, jealousy, and madness through true-life tales that are both terrifying and familiar stories that could be ripped from today s headlines. 
 In CrimeSong, law professor and authentic storyteller Richard H. Underwood recreates in engaging and folksy prose the true facts behind twenty-four Southern murder ballads. Underwood has resurrected these stories and shares them with the reader through his old lawyer trifocals. 
 He presents his case studies, documented through contemporary news accounts and court records, as a series of dramas filled with jump-off-the-page real and memorable characters. 
 Some of the murder ballads more familiar to readers, musicians, and fans of traditional, Appalachian, Bluegrass, and folk music include "Omie Wise," "Ellen Smith," "Frankie Silver," "Frankie and Albert" (or "Frankie and Johnny)," "Delia," "Tom Dula," "The Lawson Family Murders," and "Freda Bolt." Among the more obscure is the story of "General Denhardt" and the death of the widow Verna Garr Taylor, "who was known as the most beautiful woman in Oldham County, [Kentucky]." Also included, among others, is "Henry Clay Beattie," the 1911 murder in Richmond, Virginia, that "brought New York-style newspaper sensationalism to the South, like the coverage of the 1836 case of Helen Jewett and the 1841 case of Mary Rogers.

CrimeSong: True Crime Stories From Southern Murder Ballads

History

Americas

Review\nCrimeSong: A revealing look at the quirky history of U.S. criminal law. 
A law professor explores the real-life events behind old American murder ballads. 
Underwood (co-author: Kentucky Evidence Courtroom Manual, 2016, etc.) delves into court records, newspaper accounts, and other primary sources to find the facts underlying popular songs about grisly murders and crimes in the South in the 1800s and early 1900s. Most readers will be unfamiliar with many of these ballads, although a few, such as Frankie and Johnnie and Tom Dula (aka Tom Dooley ), are still well-known due to having inspired later musicians such as Bob Dylan and the Kingston Trio. Underwood explores several genres, including the murdered girl ballad often about a man drowning his female lover as well as songs in which women kill men for revenge, whole families are slaughtered, or bystanders lose their lives. In addition to tracing the history behind each song, Underwood comments on the actual cases legal aspects, such as hearsay, circumstantial evidence, or the SODI defense short for some other dude did it. In all, he draws a macabre historical portrait of America, its sensationalist press, and its frequent miscarriages of justice, suggesting that things haven t changed all that much in the modern era. The book includes each of the songs original lyrics along with a rich lode of grainy images and references to further readings and recordings. Overall, Underwood has written a delightful book about a gruesome subject. Even when he delves into the cases and their legal issues, he employs a light touch, sprinkling his accounts with humor: Oh hell, don t bother with him; he ain t nothing but a lawyer, one defendant advises. Besides providing a revealing look at the quirky history of U.S. criminal law, the book also serves as a testament to the sheer weirdness of American culture; in one ballad, for instance, the murder of a family in Missouri is set to the sweet, sentimental tune of Home Sweet Home. Underwood does have an unfortunate tendency to assert that certain topics are interesting a judgment best left to readers but such lapses are rare. 
A sometimes-sad, sometimes-humorous look at ballads that have preserved a part of America s crazed, violent history. --Kirkus Reviews\nCrimeSong is a very unique and interesting book, to say the least, one that is sure to be appealing to a very diverse group of readers. CrimeSong is a well-researched, well-written, and highly interesting portrayal of human tragedies that made their way into ballads that speak of both the best and worst of our human nature (love, betrayal, jealously, anger, and violent responses). It should be a most interesting read for anyone who finds pleasure in the reading of murder mysteries. And it should be an even more interesting read for those who have connections to the justice system and interests in observing the law's response to some of its toughest problems. --Robert G. Lawson, Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky College of Law, "Book Review," Bench & Bar Magazine, Jan./Feb 2017, Kentucky Bar Association\nCrimeSong: True Crime Stories from Southern Murder Ballads by Richard H. Underwood is a unique book that goes behind the words of well-known music to tell about the bad acts that inspired the songs. For generations, American ballads have told stories of murder and mayhem. [Underwood's] meticulous research and expertise in trial procedure combine to recount the details of criminal acts that became the basis for songs. --Jayne Moore, Contributing Columnist, The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY\nNew paperback edition with new materials including an Addendum and Reading Group Guide 
A 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Winnerand a 2017 IPPY Book of the Year Awards Silver medalist in Southeast Best RegionalNon-Fiction and a Bronze medalist in National Cover Design Nonfiction! 
CrimeSong plunges readers into a world of violence against women, murders, familici

CrimeSong: True Crime Stories from Southern Murder Ballads

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