Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy, 2nd Edition (1-year Online Subscription)

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.