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• Title:Inside lawyers' ethics / Christine Parker and Adrian Evans.
  
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• Author/Creator:Parker, Christine, 1969- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Evans, Adrian, author.
  
• Published/Created:Port Melbourne, Australia : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K103.L44 P37 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Legal ethics.
  Lawyers--Discipline.
  Lawyers--Fees.
  Practice of law.
  
• Edition:Third edition.
  
• Description:xxiii, 355 pages: illustrations; 25 cm
  
• Summary:An "examination of the moral and ethical dilemmas that legal professionals may encounter in a rapidly changing professional environment. The text provides comprehensive coverage and analysis of general philosophical approaches to morality as well as the legal frameworks which govern ethical decision-making and practice." -- Back cover.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1316642003
  9781316642009 (Paperback)
  9781108216784 (PDF ebook)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: values in practice
  Introduction: ethics and lawyering
  Process of ethical reflection and decision-making
  Adversarial advocacy: the traditional conception of legal ethics
  Limitations of adversarial advocacy
  Conclusion
  Recommended further reading
  2. Alternatives to adversarial advocacy
  Introduction
  Different approaches to lawyers' ethics
  Responsible lawyering: officer of the court and trustee of the legal system
  Moral activism: agents for justice with clients and the law
  Ethics of care: relational lawyering
  Being explicit about our ethics
  Conclusion
  Recommended further reading
  3. responsibility climate: professionalism and the regulation of lawyers' ethics
  Introduction
  Self-regulation: professional community and social trustee professionalism
  Co-regulation and independent regulation of the legal profession today: complaints handling and discipline
  ethics of fidelity and appropriation: funding the regulation of the profession
  Conclusion
  Recommended further reading
  4. Confidentiality: boundaries and disclosure
  Introduction
  Rationale for confidentiality
  Lawyers' obligations of confidentiality
  Maintaining confidentiality in an interconnected world
  Public interest exceptions to confidentiality: should lawyers' obligations of confidentiality be absolute?
  Why blow a careful whistle?
  Conclusion
  Recommended further reading
  5. Ethics in criminal justice: proof and truth
  Introduction
  criminal trial defence
  prosecution
  Ethics in criminal justice: from the local criminal trial to global justice
  Further case studies
  Conclusion
  Recommended further reading
  6. Civil dispute resolution and excessive adversarialism
  Introduction
  `adversarial imperative' and excessive adversarialism
  Responsible lawyering: `overarching obligations', truthfulness and fairness
  Moral activism: moral conversations about litigation and dispute resolution?
  ethics of care for lawyers in negotiation and mediation?
  Conclusion
  Recommended further reading
  7. Conflicting loyalties
  Introduction
  How far does loyalty to the client extend? The values in the conduct rules
  Alternative ethical approaches to client loyalty
  Conclusion
  Recommended further reading
  8. Lawyers' fees and costs: billing and over-charging
  Introduction
  Ethical problems with lawyers' fees and billing practices
  Negotiating fair, reasonable and realistic cost agreements
  Conclusion
  Recommended further reading
  9. Corporate lawyers and corporate misconduct
  Introduction
  line between corporate lawyering and ethics?
  Corporate lawyers as corporate citizens
  Addressing rationalisation: legal ethics and business ethics
  Conclusion
  Recommended further reading
  10. Conclusion: personal professionalism, virtue, values and legal professionalism
  Introduction
  significance of virtue and personal values in legal professionalism
  Measuring awareness of ethical preference
  Conclusion.