Canceling Lawyers: Case Studies of Accountability, Toleration, and Regret

Wendel, W. Bradley

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

Oxford University Press

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.

Lawyers and Fidelity to Law

Princeton University Press

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.

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Professional Responsibility: Examples and Explanations

Aspen Law & Business

Book by Martyn, Susan R., Fox, Lawrence J., Wendel, W. Bradley

The Law Governing Lawyers: National Rules, Standards and Statutes

Martyn, Susan R.

Fox, Lawrence J.

ASPEN PUB.

Book by Martyn, Susan R., Fox, Lawrence J., Wendel, W. Bradley

The Law Governing Lawyers: National Rules, Standards, Statutes and State Lawyer Codes 2006

Fox, Lawrence

The Law Governing Lawyers: National Rules, Standards, Statutes, and State Lawyer Codes, 2006-2007 Edition

Wolters Kluwer Law and Business

Martyn, Susan R., Fox, Lawrence J., Wendel, W. Bradley

The Law Governing Lawyers: National Rules, Standards, Statutes, and State Lawyer Codes, 2007-2008 Edition

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The Law Governing Lawyers: National Rules, Standards, Statutes, and State Lawyer Codes, 2008-2009 Edition

Can someone be a good person yet act in a professional role that may involve deception, procedural trickery, withholding information, and working on behalf of terrible people and institutions? This question is at the heart of legal ethics. Using cases from around the common-law world, W. Bradley Wendel looks at issues including confidentiality, the moral responsibility of lawyers, and truth and deception in advocacy. He then examines the classic questions of philosophy of law, including the nature of law, positivism, natural law, the relationship between law and morality, unjust legal systems, and the obligation to obey the law. Finally, he considers the ethical issues surrounding the role of lawyers, including criminal defense and prosecution, civil litigation, counseling clients on the law, and representing corporations. Combining the theoretical, philosophical, and practical, his book will be of vital interest to students of law, the philosophy of law, ethics, and political philosophy.

Ethics and Law: An Introduction (Cambridge Applied Ethics)

Cambridge University Press

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Canceling Lawyers: Case Studies of Accountability, Toleration, and Regret

Lawyers and Fidelity to Law

Lawyers and Fidelity to Law

Professional Responsibility: Examples and Explanations

The Law Governing Lawyers: National Rules, Standards and Statutes

The Law Governing Lawyers: National Rules, Standards, Statutes and State Lawyer Codes 2006

The Law Governing Lawyers: National Rules, Standards, Statutes, and State Lawyer Codes, 2006-2007 Edition

The Law Governing Lawyers: National Rules, Standards, Statutes, and State Lawyer Codes, 2007-2008 Edition

The Law Governing Lawyers: National Rules, Standards, Statutes, and State Lawyer Codes, 2008-2009 Edition

Ethics and Law: An Introduction (Cambridge Applied Ethics)