Professional responsibility : examples and explanations /

Wendel, W. Bradley.

Professional responsibility : examples and explanations / W. Bradley Wendel. - 2nd ed. - New York : Aspen Pub., 2007. - xxv, 471 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The many ways of regulating lawyers -- Formation and termination -- Aspects of an ongoing relationship -- Attorneys' fees and transactions with clients -- Representing entities and groups -- Incompetence : remedies for malpractice and constitutional ineffectiveness -- Confidentiality and secrecy -- Attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine -- Professional duty of confidentiality -- Perjury in civil and criminal litigation : the lawyer's "trilemma" -- Attorney conduct in litigation : forensic tactics, fair and foul -- The client fraud problem -- Overview of conflicts of interest -- Current client conflicts -- Current client conflicts issues in specific contexts -- Former client conflicts and migratory lawyers -- Personal-interest conflicts -- Attracting clients : advertising and solicitation -- Associations of lawyers -- The organized bar.

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Legal ethics--United States.
Attorney-Client relationship.
Conflicts of interest.
Organization and regulation of the legal profession.
Perjury and client fraud.
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