Professional Judgment for Lawyers

Professional Judgment for Lawyers
Author: Randall Kiser
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2023-07-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1035314819

Written by the leading authority on legal decision making, Professional Judgment for Lawyers integrates empirical legal research, cognitive and social psychology, organizational behavior, legal ethics, and neuroscience to understand and improve decision making by attorneys, clients, judges, arbitrators, mediators, and juries.

Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment

Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment
Author: Paul Brest
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2010-06-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0195366328

In Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment: A Guide for Lawyers and Policymakers, Paul Brest and Linda Hamilton Krieger prepare students and professionals to be creative problem solvers, wise counselors, and effective decision makers. The authors provide readers with knowledge of decision theory, probability and statistics, social and cognitive psychology, and arm them against common sources of judgment error. The ultimate goal is to help readers "get it right" in their roles as professionals, citizens, and individuals.

Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment

Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment
Author: Paul Brest
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2010-05-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199995915

In Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment, Paul Brest and Linda Hamilton Krieger have written a systematic guide to creative problem solving that prepares students to exercise effective judgment and decision making skills in the complex social environments in which they will work. The book represents a major milestone in the education of lawyers and policymakers, Developed by two leaders in the field, this first book of its type includes material drawn from statistics, decision science, social and cognitive psychology, the "judgment and decision making" (JDM) literature, and behavioral economics. It combines quantitative approaches to empirical analysis and decision making (statistics and decision science) with the psychological literature illustrating the systematic errors of the intuitive decision maker. The book can stand alone as a text or serve as a supplement to a core law or public policy curriculum. Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment: A Guide for Lawyers and Policymakers prepares students and professionals to be creative problem solvers, wise counselors, and effective decision makers. The authors' ultimate goals are to help readers "get it right" in their roles as professionals and citizens, and to arm them against common sources of judgment error.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
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.

Professional Judgment on Appeal

Professional Judgment on Appeal
Author: Steven Wisotsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Appellate procedure
ISBN: 9781594606519

Professional Judgment on Appeal starts with the simple fact that the overwhelming majority of appeals, both civil and criminal, fail. Looking at this poor track record, the book focuses on the need for lawyers to sift the winning appeals from the losing appeals and advise clients accordingly. With a thematically tight focus on the tools of professional case evaluation, Wisotsky helps the lawyer to answer the ultimate question in every case: can this appeal succeed and on what grounds? This book is designed to aid all members of the legal profession: lawyers, judges, students, and professors. It builds upon the basics taught in law school, but goes far beyond to fill notable gaps in the knowledge of most attorneys. The second edition updates the first edition from 2002 with current rules, statutes and cases. It also adds new chapters on Extraordinary Writs and Ethical Dimensions of Appellate Practice. "With a thematically tight focus on the tools of professional case evaluation, Wisotsky helps the lawyer to answer the ultimate question in every case: can this appeal succeed and on what grounds? This book is designed to aid all members of the legal profession: lawyers, judges, students, and professors. It builds upon the basics taught in law school, but goes far beyond to fill notable gaps in the knowledge of most attorneys." -- The Law and Politics Book Review

The Practice of Justice

The Practice of Justice
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.

Ethics and the Legal Profession

Ethics and the Legal Profession
Author: Michael Davis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1986
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Contains articles that explore confrontations in the daily practice of law, employing case studies. This text is divided into 6 sections, each dealing with an important issue: the Structure of the Profession; the Moral Critique of Professionalism; the Adversary System; Conflict of Interest; Client Confidences; and, the Provision of Legal Services.

Professional Judgment

Professional Judgment
Author: Jack Dowie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1988-01-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521346962

Policy-capturing models, data-based aids, expert systems and decision analysis are the main decision-making techniques introduced here, with attention to their methodological bases and practical evaluation.

How Leading Lawyers Think

How Leading Lawyers Think
Author: Randall Kiser
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2011-08-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3642204848

In this book, 78 leading attorneys in California and New York describe how they evaluate, negotiate and resolve litigation cases. Selected for their demonstrated skill in predicting trial outcomes and knowing when cases should be settled or taken to trial, these attorneys identify the key factors in case evaluation and share successful strategies in pre-trial discovery, negotiation, mediation, and trials. Integrating law and psychology, the book shows how skilled attorneys mentally frame cases, understand jurors’ perspectives, develop persuasive themes and arguments and achieve exceptional results for clients.

Professional Judgment

Professional Judgment
Author: Jack Dowie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1988-01-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521346283

Recent debate in both Europe and North America has focussed on how clinicians make judgments and decisions, how these may be evaluated and how they could be improved. This volume provides students, teachers and practitioners with a comprehensive introduction to the main descriptive and prescriptive approaches to judgment and decision making in clinical medicine. The contributors, who include psychologists, economists, decision theorists, statisticians, lawyers and sociologists, as well as medical specialists, provide examples of recent empirical research and its applications, as well as outlining the relevant concepts and theories. Policy-capturing models, data-based aids, expert ('knowledg-based') systems and decision analysis are the main techniques introduced, with attention to both their methodological bases and practical evaluation. Also included in the collection are a series of papers which consider the economic, ethical and legal contexts of clinical activity and the education and wider socialization of clinicians. Issues surrounding the 'cost-effective' use of resources, the obtaining of 'informed consent' from patients and ethical behaviour under uncertainty are highlighted.