Find practical answers to hard questions about professional conduct - and avoid wrong answers that could set back your firm - with this authoritative guide to legal ethics. Drawing on statutes, standards, and actual cases, the authors show you how to:
* Evaluate tactics for possible ethical consequences
* Understand and comply with statutes, procedural rules, and standards of professional conduct while zealously representing your client
* Prevent your opponents from turning the rules to their own advantage
You'll find concise, authoritative discussion of ethical problems that arise in such critical areas as:
* Investigation of claims
* Abuse of discovery
* Conflicts of interest
* Burdensome interrogatories
* Trial in the media
* Voir dire and juror investigation
* Deposition tactics
* Special fee arrangements
* Settlement negotiations
* Withdrawal and client confidentiality
* Arguing false inferences based on inadmissible evidence
...plus detailed attention to the special problems that arise in criminal defense, insurance defense, and class actions.
