Alternative Perspectives On Lawyers And Legal Ethics
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Author | : Reid Mortensen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2010-09-13 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1136937404 |
The study of legal ethics and the legal profession has emerged as a distinct and important field of scholarship over the last 30 years. However, as in other disciplines, academic recognition can in turn entrench static and powerful meta-theories and narratives about professional ethos and practise, this collection seeks to disrupt this homogenising impulse and to present alternative voices by bringing together a range of international scholars writing about legal ethics and the legal profession. The book features significant and timely contributions which take contemporary and non-mainstream perspectives on the current and future shape of the legal profession. The essays not only describe the rapidly changing profession but canvas different approaches to scholarship on the legal profession. The collection seeks to explore a diverse and contextualised profession from a number of angles. Authors examine how the public sees lawyers and how lawyers see their own profession; how we practise law and how this practice shapes lawyers; how such cultural and professional practice intersects with institutional structures of the law to create certain legal outcomes; and how we regulate the legal profession to modify or institute ethical practice. The volume provides insights into legal culture and ethics from the perspective of authors from Australia, Canada, England, the United States, New Zealand and Kenya – a diversity of national perspectives that give valuable insights into developments in the profession at the local and global level. It also illustrates diversity within the profession by tracing differing professional career trajectories based on raced or gendered barriers, alternative ethical strategies and the impact of organisational cultures in which lawyers practice.
Author | : Reid Mortensen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2010-09-13 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1136937412 |
The study of legal ethics and the legal profession has emerged as a distinct and important field of scholarship over the years. This book offers contemporary and non-mainstream perspectives on the shape of the legal profession. It examines how the public sees lawyers and how lawyers see their own profession.
Author | : William H. Simon |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780674002753 |
William Simon, a legal theorist with experience in practice, here argues that the profession's standard approach to questions of legal ethics is incoherent and implausible, insisting the critical weakness is the style of judgment.
Author | : Geoffrey C. Hazard |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780804748827 |
Examining legal ethics within the framework of modern practice, this book identifies two important ethical issues that all lawyers confront: the difference between the role of lawyers and the role of judges in pursuing justice, and the conflicting responsibilities lawyers have to their clients and to the legal system more broadly. In addressing these issues, Legal Ethics provides an explanation of the duties and dilemmas common to practicing lawyers in modern legal systems throughout the world. The authors focus their analysis on lawyers in independent practice in modern capitalist constitutional regimes, including the United States, Japan, Europe, and Latin America, as well as the emerging legal systems in China and the former Soviet bloc, to develop connections between the legal profession and political systems based on the rule of law. They find that although ethical tension is inherent in the legal practice of all these societies, the legal profession is essential to stable political institutions.
Author | : William H. Simon |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674043669 |
Should a lawyer keep a client's secret even when disclosure would exculpate a person wrongly accused of crime? The Practice of Justice is a fresh look at this and other traditional questions about the ethics of lawyering.
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Publisher | : Aspatore Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Dispute resolution (Law) |
ISBN | : 9780314279699 |
The Role of Ethics in ADR provides an authoritative, insiders perspective on the ethical considerations that attorneys need to be aware of during alternative dispute resolution. Featuring partners from some of the nations leading law firms, this book guides the reader through todays ADR arena and the ethical concerns that lawyers are currently facing. With a focus on issues such as disclosure, neutrality, and the rule of candor, these top lawyers analyze the various ethical rules and protocols to which attorneys, arbitrators, and mediators must adhere and how they come into play during the actual ADR process. These authors also discuss what to do when the rules overlap or are inconsistent, or if an ethical violation is suspected. Finally, these leaders identify strategies for preparing clients for the ADR process, explaining their options, and developing a successful attorney-client relationship. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great legal minds of today, as these experienced lawyers offer up their thoughts on the keys to success within this critical field.
Author | : Andrew Boon |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2017-11-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1509905189 |
This collection explores developments in the regulation of legal services by examining the control of the markets in several key countries and in jurisdictions within countries. The contributions consider emerging adjustments in regulatory structures and methods; examine the continuing role, if any, of professionals and how this may be changing; and speculate on the future of legal services regulation in each jurisdiction. The introductory and concluding chapters draw together similarities, differences and conclusions regarding directions of change in the regulation of legal services. They consider the emergence of alternatives to professionalism as a means of regulating legal services and some implications for the rule of law.
Author | : Andrew Boon |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 575 |
Release | : 2022-10-20 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1509925236 |
This book examines lawyers' contributions to creating and maintaining the rule of law, one of the pillars of a liberal democracy. It moves from the European Enlightenment to the modern day, exploring the role of judges, government lawyers, and private practitioners in creating, defining, and being defined by, the demands of modern society. The book is divided into 4 parts representing the big themes. The first part considers lawyers' contribution to the growth of constitutionalism, the second, the formulation of roles and identities, and the third the formation of values. The fourth part focuses on the challenges faced by lawyers and the rule of law in the past 50 years, the neoliberal period, and how they challenge both conceptions of lawyers and the rule of law. Each part is illustrated by defining events, from the execution of Charles I, through the Nuremberg Trials, to the insurrection by supporters of Donald Trump in January 2021. Although the focus is on England and Wales, parallel developments in other jurisdictions, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA, are considered. This allows analysis of lawyers' historical and contemporary engagement with the rule of law in jurisdictional systems based on the Common Law. Each chapter is thematic, but the passage through the book is broadly chronological.
Author | : American Bar Association. House of Delegates |
Publisher | : American Bar Association |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781590318737 |
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Author | : Christine Parker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 110764173X |
This book is designed to help law students and new lawyers understand and modify their own ethical priorities, not just because this knowledge makes it easier to practise law and earn an income, but because self-aware, ethical legal practice is right and feels better than anything else.