The Law of Lawyering: A Handbook on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct

This essential book shows how to approach concrete problems that arise in everyday practice while staying within the letter and spirit of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. It provides the full text of each Model Rule provision in sequence, followed by the authors' guidance and commentary which puts the rule into context, identifies its key features, and shows its relation to other Rules. Clear, realistic examples and illustrative cases demonstrate how each Rule applies in practice. Substantially revised and updated, the handbook reflects the latest developments in the law governing lawyer conduct, including the new model rules on trial publicity, fee dispute litigation and arbitration concerns, new "risk analysis" treatment of conflicts of interest issues, developments regarding advertising and the commercial speech doctrine, trial publicity, and the latest amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.