Product Description: The toughest ethical issues for lawyers aren’t the ones that come up on law school exams. Practicing lawyers have more practical questions, such as: (1) when may I finally shred my closed files? (2) what magic words do I need to make the arbitration clause in my engagement agreement enforceable? (3) how can I use social media to enhance my reputation rather than to ruin it? (4) what are the 10 ways to avoid disciplinary complaints? (5) what are the 8 keys to a compliant law firm website? Louisiana Legal Ethics: Standards & Commentary (2016), is a newly-updated compendium of Louisiana legal ethics standards...read more

This study aid features an innovative method of content organization. It uses a checklist format to lead students through questions they need to ask to fully evaluate the legal problem they are trying to solve. It also synthesizes the material in a way that most students are unable to do on their own, and assembles the different issues, presenting a clear guide to analysis that students can draw upon when writing their exams. Other study aids provide sample problems, but this book offers a systematic approach to problem solving.

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.

Product Description: From Pulitzer Prize winner Raymond Bonner, the gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row. In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina...read more

Product Description: The essays in this volume illustrate the difficult real world ethical questions and issues arising from accelerating technological change in the military and security domains, and place those challenges in the context of rapidly shifting geopolitical and strategic frameworks...read more

Product Description: An Approach to Rights contains fifteen previously published but mostly inaccessible papers that together show the development of one of the more important contemporary theories of the nature, grounds and practical implications of rights...read more

Product Description: Attorney-client privilege continues to be a complex issue. The need for confidential communication in the corporate setting is as great, if not greater, than ever before. The latest edition focuses on:•Guidance for corporate counsel •Perspectives on the attorney-client privilege and the work-product doctrine•Confidentiality and its relationship to the attorney-client privilege•Hidden dangers for the exceptions to the attorney-client privilegeAnd much more...read more

Product Description: This book brings together the issues surrounding banking secrecy and confiscation of criminal proceeds. The book examines the existing legal agreements at the international, regional and national levels and their interaction in the substantive areas of confiscation, anti-money laundering and banking confidentiality laws...read more

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Product Description: This collection of selected essays by Hans-Jurgen Hellwig deals with the German and European regulation of the legal profession and professional ethics standards for lawyers. In recent years, these essays have significantly shaped the development of both areas...read more

Product Description: When it comes to professional liability, understanding what triggers costly and time-consuming claims can be your best way to avoid them. But what should happen if the accusation is made? Whether you are a defense attorney, client, or corporate officer, this book will give you an in-depth look at an insider's perspective on not only litigating, but also defending against, malpractice claims...read more

Product Description: Though there is much to be said for governing “beyond governments”, it is a treacherous area with little practical guidance of how it can be done successfully. Collective governance should reinforce and strengthen government systems and enable the formal institutions to do their jobs...read more

Product Description: Though there is much to be said for governing “beyond governments”, it is a treacherous area with little practical guidance of how it can be done successfully. Collective governance should reinforce and strengthen government systems and enable the formal institutions to do their jobs...read more