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• Title:The good lawyer / Adrian Evans.
  
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• Author/Creator:Evans, Adrian.
  
• Published/Created:Port Melbourne, Vic. : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K123 .E93 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Legal ethics.
  Legal ethics--Australia.
  Practice of law.
  Practice of law--Australia.
  
• Description:xv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:"Explores the ethical and professional challenges that confront people who work in the law -- or are considering it -- and offers principled and pragmatic advice about how to overcome such challenges ... [and shows] how to develop personal judgment when you may be pulled one way by rules, another way by decided cases and yet another way by conventional 'role morality.'"--Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781107423435
  1107423430
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Good legal education
  1.1. Introduction: Forget money
  1.2. Types of law degrees
  1.3. Being good requires more than expertise
  1.4. Coverage of this book
  1.5. Identifying ar good law school
  1.6. Questions to ask your preferred law school
  1.7. Choosing electives
  1.8. Essentials in the process of law study
  1.9. Managing your mental health
  1.10. `structural' connection between legal education and student health: Rationality but not emotion
  1.11. After you graduate: Practical legal training (PLT)
  1.12. Seeking admission to legal practice
  2. law practice landscape: choosing to be a `good' lawyer in a good law firm
  2.1. connection between good lawyering and good legal communities
  2.2. Common themes in major examples of poor lawyering
  2.3. Failures of lawyers' regulation, not just of lawyers' character
  2.4. ethical environment in different areas of law and types of legal practice
  2.5. Questions new lawyers can ask law firms when assessing their worth
  2.6. Inside the ideal commercial law firm
  2.7. regulation of not-so-good lawyering
  2.8. Uniform Conduct Rules (UCR)
  3. Values, ethics and virtue in lawyering
  3.1. Inside the law: First do no harm?
  3.2. Do we have a choice about our behaviour?
  3.3. legal limit: Why `law' and `rules' are not enough to produce good lawyering
  3.4. Determining a priority between law and ethics
  3.5. General morality: The three major systems of ethical thought
  3.6. Understanding general morality through the distinctions between the ethics of duty and virtue ethics
  3.7. Conclusion: Strengthening our self-respect
  4. Connecting character to lawyers' roles
  4.1. Introduction: Character-laden law
  4.2. Strengthening underlying character
  4.3. Connecting with your own sense of general morality
  4.4. Being and remaining `positive' about life as a lawyer
  4.5. Why is role morality (zealous advocacy, the dominant legal ethic) so-important for lawyers?
  4.6. Central criticisms of role morality
  4.7. Virtue and character as a more stable foundation for modern legal ethics
  4.8. Identifying virtues
  4.9. Can virtue ethics stand up to criticism?
  4.10. Role morality versus the rest: Connecting character and attitudes to positive and preferred lawyer `types'
  4.11. Challenging morality: Large law firms as a special case?
  4.12. Conclusion
  5. Truth and deception
  5.1. Introduction: Tools for analysis
  5.2. Key issues in truth and deception: Active and passive deceit
  5.3. Hiding embarrassing documents
  5.4. Hiding the true purpose of a legal action
  5.5. Criminal lawyers who `know too much'
  5.6. Evading tax
  5.7. Conclusion: The possible consequences if caught `lying'
  6. Professional secrets
  6.1. Introduction: The shrinking world of secrets
  6.2. Professional secrecy remains important: Confidentiality and client privilege
  6.2.1. Confidentiality
  6.2.2. Client privilege
  6.3. Keeping quiet
  murder
  6.4. Keeping quiet
  corruption
  6.5. Hit-run-hide
  6.6. Conclusion
  7. Conflicts of loyalty and interest
  7.1. Introduction: What is a conflict of interest and why are conflicts so difficult?
  7.2. overview of lawyer
  client conflicts
  7.3. Client
  client (concurrent) conflict
  7.4. Acting against former clients
  successive conflicts
  7.5. Conclusion
  8. morality of competence
  8.1. Introduction: Competence requires morality
  8.2. Commercialism and competent legal practice
  8.3. Contract, tort and the advocates' exit clause
  8.4. Financial competency
  8.5. Billing and bribery: Challenges to competency
  8.6. Staying competent
  8.6.1. Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
  8.6.2. Artificial Intelligence
  8.6.3. Specialist accreditation
  8.6.4. Risk management
  8.7. Conclusion: Moral competency and competent morality
  9. Practical wisdom for lawyers
  9.1. Introduction: A far greater authority
  9.2. Strengthening the general morality of legal profession discipline structures
  9.3. Practical wisdom in regulation
  9.4. Conclusion: Maintaining physical and moral resilience inside legal workplaces
  Appendix A Self-assessment of legal ethical preferences
  Appendix B Safety nets for lawyers
  B1. Professional Indemnity Insurance
  the `back-up' for practitioner negligence
  B2. Professional standards schemes
  B3. Fidelity compensation.