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.

Part I: Proceedings Before Trial
1. Commencing Litigation: Ethics and Accountability
2. Commencing Litigation: Judicial Sanctions
3. Conflicts of Interest
4. The Advocate-Witness Problem
5. Investigation
6. Discovery
7. Lawyers, Free Speech, and the Media
8. Trial Tactics - Some Opening Moves

   Part II: The Trial

9. Relations with Jurors
10. The Direct Examiner
11. The Cross-Examiner
12. Closing Argument

    Part III: Special Problems

13. Special Problems in the Criminal Defense
14. Special Problems in Class Action

    Part IV: Some Final Matters

15. Negotiation and Settlement
16. Withdrawal
17. Appeal
18. Disciplines, the Court, and Ethics Committees

Table of Cases

Bibliography

Index of Errata

Index