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Lawyers on Trial - Understanding Ethical Misconduct (Hardcover)
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Lawyers on Trial - Understanding Ethical Misconduct (Hardcover)
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Lawyer misconduct affects many people: clients, adversaries,
opposing counsel, judges, the legal profession, and society at
large. The records of disciplinary proceedings offer a penetrating,
and largely ignored, perspective on how lawyers misbehave. Because
the lawyers' professional lives are at stake, the factual records
are extraordinarily detailed and the lawyers surprisingly open
about their motivations and justifications.
In Lawyers on Trial, Richard L. Abel presents the stories of ten
California lawyers who broke the rules: hiring an ex-cop to chase
ambulances, flouting fee limitations in medical malpractice cases,
creating a fictitious company and impersonating non-existent people
in order to appropriate Sega's computer games, a former California
Real Estate Commissioner defrauding developers and financiers,
helping a represented co-defendant negotiate a plea without his
lawyer's participation or knowledge, and defying a judge's sealing
order and his own client's wishes for closure in order to champion
the "defenseless" and "oppressed" and protect "widows and
children." The book begins by showing how nearly a century of
political struggle over self-regulation shapes the way the
disciplinary system selects and processes cases and concludes by
canvassing reforms that could improve the performance of the legal
profession.
Lawyers on Trialwill be invaluable for those contemplating law
school, law students and teachers of professional responsibility,
continuing legal education classes, lawyers encountering ethical
dilemmas in their practice or trying to understand misbehaving
colleagues, members of the public thinking of retaining a lawyer,
and clients dealing with their own lawyers.
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