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Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy, 2nd Edition

Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy, 2nd Edition

Author: William H. Fortune; Richard H. Underwood; Edward J. Imwinkelried
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.
ISBN: 10045420-7777
Published In: Subscription-type (Contents updated periodically)
Format: Hardback , 736 pages
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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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.
1. Commencing Litigation: Ethics and Accountability
2. Commencing Litigation: Judicial Sanctions
3. Conflicts of Interest
4. The Advocate-Witness Problem
5. Investigation
6. Discovery
7. Lawyers, Free Speech, and the Media
8. Trial Tactics - Some Opening Moves
  Part II: The Trial
9. Relations with Jurors
10. The Direct Examiner
11. The Cross-Examiner
12. Closing Argument
  Part III: Special Problems
13. Special Problems in the Criminal Defense
14. Special Problems in Class Action
  Part IV: Some Final Matters
15. Negotiation and Settlement
16. Withdrawal
17. Appeal
18. Disciplines, the Court, and Ethics Committees
Table of Cases

Bibliography

Index of Errata

Index