Professional responsibility in the life of the lawyer /
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St. Paul, MN :
Thomson/West,
©2011
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Table of Contents:
- Lawyers
- Regulation of the legal profession : promulgating standards of conduct for lawyers
- Regulation of the legal profession : enforcing standards of professional conduct
- Legal education
- Admission to the bar
- Preventing the unauthorized practice of law by non-lawyers
- Multi-jurisdictional practice
- Associating with law firms
- Advertising
- Solicitation
- Cooperating with matchmakers
- Establishing a client-lawyer relationship
- Clarifying the scope of a client's representation
- Setting the fee : general principles
- Fees and reimbursements contingent on the outcome of the representation
- Safekeeping client funds and property
- Pro bono representation
- Communication and decision-making
- Impaired clients
- Competent and diligent representation of a client
- Duties to third persons derived from the lawyer's duties to a client
- Protecting information relating to the representation of clients
- Exceptions to the lawyer's duty of confidentiality
- Using the attorney-client privilege to prevent compelled disclosure of information related to a client's representation
- Using the work-product rule to prevent compelled disclosure of information relating to a client's representation
- Representing a client whose interests are directly adverse to the interests of another client in different matters
- Representation of a client materially limited by the representation of another client
- Identifying and resolving conflicts of interest between the client and the lawyer
- Identifying and resolving conflicts of interest between a lawyer's client and non-clients
- Avoiding complicity in client wrongdoing
- Termination of the client-lawyer relationship
- Duties to former clients
- Duties to former clients when lawyers move between law firms
- Marshaling and preventing access to facts on behalf of a client
- Designing and negotiating settlements
- Filing claims and motions
- Discovery
- Trial practice : prohibited advocacy
- Trial practice : truthfulness, candor, and the prevention of offenses against the administration of justice
- Appellate practice
- Prosecutors
- Lawyers and judges
- Alternative dispute resolution roles and processes
- Forming and representing organizational clients
- Avoiding complicity in client crimes and frauds
- Becoming and serving as a judge
- Managing law firms and supervising the work of others