
Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy, Second Edition


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Find practical answers to hard questions about professional conduct -- and avoid wrong answers that could set back your firm -- with this authoritative guide to legal ethics. Drawing on statutes, standards, and actual cases, the authors show you how to:
- Evaluate tactics for possible ethical consequences
- Understand and comply with statutes, procedural rules, and standards of professional conduct while zealously representing your client
- Prevent your opponents from turning the rules to their own advantage
You'll find concise, authoritative discussion of ethical problems that arise in such critical areas as:
- Investigation of claims
- Abuse of discovery
- Conflicts of interest
- Burdensome interrogatories
- Trial in the media
- Voir dire and juror investigation
- Deposition tactics
- Special fee arrangements
- Settlement negotiations
- Withdrawal and client confidentiality
- Arguing false inferences based on inadmissible evidence, plus detailed attention to the special problems that arise in criminal defense, insurance defense, and class actions.
Note: Online subscriptions are for three-month periods.
Last Updated | 05/14/2020 |
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Update Frequency | Annually |
Product Line | Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. |
SKU | 10045420-7777 |
Publish Frequency | Annually |
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Product Line | Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. |
SKU | 000000000010071719 |
Part I: Proceedings Before Trial
- Commencing Litigation: Ethics and Accountability
- Commencing Litigation: Judicial Sanctions
- Conflicts of Interest
- The Advocate-Witness Problem
- Investigation
- Discovery
- Lawyers, Free Speech, and the Media
- Trial Tactics - Some Opening Moves
Part II: The Trial
- Relations with Jurors
- The Direct Examiner
- The Cross-Examiner
- Closing Argument
Part III: Special Problems
- Special Problems in the Criminal Defense
- Special Problems in Class Action
Part IV: Some Final Matters
- Negotiation and Settlement
- Withdrawal
- Appeal
- Disciplines, the Court, and Ethics Committees
Table of Cases
Bibliography
Index of Errata
Index