Lawyers in Practice
Ethical Decision Making in Context
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Preface
Contributors
Part I. Introductory Perspectives on Ethics in Context
Chapter 1 Why Context Matters
Lynn Mather and Leslie C. Levin
Chapter 2 Some Realism about Legal Realism for Lawyers: Assessing the Role of Context in Legal Ethics
David B. Wilkins
Chapter 3 Whose Ethics? The Benchmark Problem in Legal Ethics Research
Elizabeth Chambliss
Part II. Decision Making in Communities of Legal Practice
Family and Immigration
Chapter 4 Client Grievances and Lawyer Conduct: The Challenges of Divorce Practice
Lynn Mather and Craig A. McEwen
Chapter 5 Immigration Lawyers and the Lying Client
Leslie C. Levin
Personal Injury
Chapter 6 Plaintiffs’ Lawyers and the Tension between Professional Norms and the Need to Generate Business
Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin
Chapter 7 Betwixt and Between: The Ethical Dilemmas of Insurance Defense
Herbert M. Kritzer
Corporate Settings
Chapter 8 The Ethics of Constructing Truth: The Corporate Litigator’s Approach
Kimberly Kirkland
Chapter 9 Transnational Lawyering: Clients, Ethics, and Regulation
John Flood
Chapter 10 The Ethics of In-House Practice
Sung Hui Kim
Corporate Specialties
Chapter 11 The Ethical Lives of Securities Lawyers
Patrick Schmidt
Chapter 12 Scientists at the Bar: The Professional World of Patent Lawyers
John M. Conley and Lynn Mather
Criminal Law
Chapter 13 Prosecutors’ Ethics in Context: Influences on Prosecutorial Disclosure
Ellen Yaroshefsky and Bruce A. Green
Chapter 14 Reinterpreting the Zealous Advocate: Multiple Intermediary Roles of the Criminal Defense Attorney
Nicole Martorano Van Cleve
Public Interest Lawyers
Chapter 15 Legal Services Lawyers: When Conceptions of Lawyering and Values Clash
Corey S. Shdaimah
Chapter 16 The Accountability Problem in Public Interest Practice: Old Paradigms and New Directions
Scott L. Cummings
Epilogue
Index
“With Lawyers in Practice, Leslie C. Levin and Lynn Mather break new ground. This is the first book to locate the ethical and unethical behavior of lawyers in details of their many varied practice contexts; the contributors make a convincing case that we can only understand lawyers’ behavior contextually. Very thorough, illuminating, and persuasive.”
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