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Lawyers in Practice Ethical Decision Making in Context

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ISBN-10: 0226475166

ISBN-13: 9780226475165

Edition: 2012

Authors: Leslie C. Levin, Lynn Mather

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 How do lawyers resolve ethical dilemmas in the everyday context of their practice? What are the issues that commonly arise, and how do lawyers determine the best ways to resolve them? Until recently, efforts to answer these questions have focused primarily on rules and legal doctrine rather than the real-life situations lawyers face in legal practice.         The first book to present empirical research on ethical decision making in a variety of practice contexts, including corporate litigation, securities, immigration, and divorce law,Lawyers in Practicefills a substantial gap in the existing literature. Following an introduction emphasizing the increasing importance of understanding…    
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Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.89" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Leslie C. Levin is professor of law at the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Lynn Mather is professor of law and political science at the University at Buffalo Law School, State University of New York. She is coeditor of the Chicago Series in Law and Society and coauthor of several books, including Private Lawyers and the Public Interest.

Preface
Contributors
Introductory Perspectives on Ethics in Context
Why Context Matters
Some Realism about Legal Realism for Lawyers: Assessing the Role of Context in Legal Ethics
Whose Ethics? The Benchmark Problem in Legal Ethics Research
Decision Making in Communities of Legal Practice
Family and Immigration
Client Grievances and Lawyer Conduct: The Challenges of Divorce Practice
Immigration Lawyers and the Lying Client
Personal Injury
Plaintiffs' Lawyers and the Tension between Professional Norms and the Need to Generate Business
Betwixt and Between: The Ethical Dilemmas of Insurance Defense
Corporate Settings
The Ethics of Constructing Truth: The Corporate Litigator's Approach
Transnational Lawyering: Clients, Ethics, and Regulation
The Ethics of In-House Practice
Corporate Specialties
The Ethical Lives of Securities Lawyers
Scientists at the Bar: The Professional World of Patent Lawyers
Criminal Law
Prosecutors' Ethics in Context: Influences on Prosecutorial Disclosure
Reinterpreting the Zealous Advocate: Multiple Intermediary Roles of the Criminal Defense Attorney
Public Interest Lawyers
Legal Services Lawyers: When Conceptions of Lawyering and Values Clash
The Accountability Problem in Public Interest Practice: Old Paradigms and New Directions
Epilogue
Index
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