Inside Lawyers' Ethics
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-54664-5 (ISBN)
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Legal ethics is often described as an oxymoron or contradiction in terms - lay people find the concept amusing and lawyers can find ethics impossible. The best lawyers are those who have come to grips with their own values and actively seek to improve their ethical practise. This book is designed to help law students and new lawyers understand and modify their own ethical priorities, not just because this knowledge makes it easier to practise law and earn an income, but because self-aware, ethical legal practice is right and feels better than anything else. Packed with case studies of ethical scandals and dilemmas from real life legal practice in Australia, each chapter delves into the most difficult issues lawyers face. From lawyers' part in corporate fraud to the ethics of time-based billing, Parker and Evans expose the values that underlie current practice and set out the alternatives ethical lawyers might follow.
Dr Christine Parker is Associate Professor and Reader in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne. She is also an Australian Research Council Australian Research Fellow. Adrian Evans has taught, practised law and consulted in clinical and legal ethics education contexts for thirty years at LaTrobe and Monash Universities in Australia. He was coordinator of Springvale Monash Legal Service Inc. from 1988–2000, a site for Monash Law School's clinical legal education programme, which is the oldest in Australia. He is both an academic and a legal practitioner, with teaching, practitioner and managerial responsibilities in legal ethics, justice education and clinical case supervision. He has empirically examined and published in relation to 'best practice' ethics in law firms, fidelity compensation, 'quality' clinical-traditional links in law teaching, client attitudes to lawyers and values development in legal practitioners. Adrian has been closely involved in the development of Australian clinical legal education and the Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE). He is currently working on the ethical climate in large law firms and the feasibility of securing the future of legal professionals through enhanced processes of ethics assessment and accreditation. Adrian is a recipient of the Monash Vice-Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching, is a Co-Chair of the Professional Ethics Committee of the International Bar Association and the Convenor of Legal Practice Programs at Monash Law School.
1. Introduction: values in practice; 2. Alternative to adversarial advocacy; 3. The responsibility climate: regulation of lawyers' ethics; 4. Civil litigation and excessive adversarialism; 5. Ethics in criminal justice: proof and truth; 6. Ethics in negotiation and alternative dispute resolution; 7. Conflicting loyalties; 8. Lawyers' fees and costs: billing and over-charging; 9. Corporate lawyers and corporate misconduct; 10. Conclusion - personal professionalism: personal values and legal professionalism.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.2.2007 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 420 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-54664-8 / 0521546648 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-54664-5 / 9780521546645 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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