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.