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

Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy, Second Edition image
ISBN-10:

0735516286

ISBN-13:

9780735516281

Author(s): Edward J. Imwinkelried; Richard H. Underwood
Edition: 2
Released: Oct 25, 2000
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
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Description:

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.
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