Recommended Titles and Treatises
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Legal Ethics
Lawyer law : comparing the ABA model rules of professional conduct with the ALI restatement (third) of the law governing lawyers
825 pages. Updated by new edition.
This title identifies 200 important questions in the field of legal ethics and offers a comparison of what both documents have to say about the issues. The topics covered are regulation of the legal profession, the client-lawyer relationship, issues in client confidentiality, issues in conflicts of interest, the lawyer's duties to tribunals and nonclients, and operation of a law practice.