Facing numerous professional responsibility challenges, trial and appellate lawyers must handle significant problems that can arise suddenly or in difficult circumstances. Written by experienced trial and appellate lawyers, this updated edition focuses on the responsibilities of practicing lawyers. Organized as an anthology with chapters that trace the life of a lawsuit from start to finish, each chapter covers a key aspect of litigation in depth. It begins with an examination of the professional responsibility issues attending pre-suit investigations and the initiation of litigation, and concludes with a discussion of the professional responsibilities unique to appellate lawyers. Chapters address key issues, such as pre-suit investigation; co-counsel and referral relationships; surreptitious investigations and discovery; ethics of e-discovery; receipt and release of confidential information; expert witness conflicts of interest; false testimony; lawyers as witnesses; and more.
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Legal Ethics: The Lawyer's Deskbook on Professional Responsibility
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See Stayton , Cum Honore Officium , 19 TEX . B.J. 765 , 766 ( 1956 ) ; Professional Responsibility : Report of the Joint Conference , 44 A.B.A.J. 1159 , 1162 ( 1958 ) ; and Paul , The Lawyer as a Tax Adviser , 25 ROCKY MT . L. REV .
(2012) 15 Legal Ethics 111. 52 Lord Chancellor's Department, Looking to the Future: Mediation and the Ground for Divorce (HMSO, 1995), para. 5.4. 53 Ibid., para. 6.7. 54 A. Boon, R. Earle, and A. Whyte, 'Regulating mediators?
Davison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Grolier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Groninger v. Fletcher Trust Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Grosso v. United States .
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EC 3-7 The prohibition against a non - lawyer practicing law does not prevent a layman from representing himself , for then he is ordinarily exposing only himself to possible injury . The purpose of the legal profession is to make ...
Anderson's the Law of Professional Conduct in Ohio
Anderson's The Law of Professional Conduct in Ohio