Recommended Titles and Treatises
To help provide access to the Texas State Law Library's legal resources, the reference librarians have selected the most noteworthy titles in our collection and arranged them here by subject. The titles listed for each subject feature a brief summary written by a reference librarian, and each subject's titles are divided into those that are specific to Texas law and those that aren't.
If you prefer, you can search through the collection of recommended titles and treatises.
Below is a legend of the icons used.
available electronically
includes CD-ROM
includes legal forms
Legal Ethics » Professional Conduct
Red flags: a lawyer's handbook on legal ethics
306 pages. Updated by new edition.
This title discusses ethics and professional responsibility for the legal practitioner. The authors focus on what they refer to as the "5 Cs" of legal ethics: control, communication, competence, confidentiality and conflicts of interest resolution. The book provides various questions and answers for ethics situations to guide attorneys through the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct. The book also covers remedies, determining when to seek advice, problems and disputes concerning control of the attorney-client relationship, judicial ethics for lawyers and methods of getting assistance.