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Inside Lawyers' Ethics, 2nd Edition

Inside Lawyers' Ethics, 2nd Edition

Author: Christine Parker; Adrian Evans
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107641730
Published In: November 2013
Format: Paperback , 320 pages
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Inside Lawyers' Ethics is a lively and practical values-based analysis of the moral dilemmas that lawyers face. It gives lawyers the confidence to understand and actively improve their ethical priorities and behaviour when confronted with major ethical challenges. It identifies the applicable law and conduct rules and analyses them in the context of four different types of ethical lawyering: zealous advocacy, responsible lawyering, moral activism and the ethics of care. This new edition is fully updated, with a new chapter on confidentiality and new case studies and review questions. This edition also contains a self-assessment instrument designed to allow readers to recognise the type of lawyering that most appeals to them. Inside Lawyers' Ethics promotes self-awareness and offers a positive and enriching approach to problem solving, rather than one based on the 'don't get caught' principle. It is essential reading for students of law and newly qualified legal practitioners.

• Case studies and questions which encourage self-reflection are contained in each chapter • A new Chapter 4 appears and covers the spectrum of issues surrounding lawyers' confidentiality • All chapters have been updated and reflect the changes to conduct rules contained in the Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules (ASCR)

1. Introduction: values in practice; 2. Alternatives to adversarial advocacy; 3. The responsibility climate: professionalism and the regulation of lawyers' ethics; 4. Confidentiality: boundaries and disclosure; 5. Ethics in criminal justice: proof and truth; 6. Civics litigation and excessive adversarialism; 7. Ethics negotiation and alternative dispute resolution; 8. Conflicting loyalties; 9. Lawyers' fees and costs: billing and over-charging; 10. Corporate lawyers and corporate misconduct; 11. Conclusion – personal professionalism: virtue, values and legal professionalism.

Christine Parker
University of Melbourne

Adrian Evans
Monash University, Victoria