Research Catalog

Title

Legal ethics and legal practice : contemporary issues / edited by Stephen Parker and Charles Sampford.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Parker, Stephen (Stephen John)
• Sampford, C. J. G. (Charles J. G.)

Description

x, 266 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• This collection of essays on legal ethics addresses the subject comparatively, unlike any previous publication in either the UK or the US. Many of the papers originated from rare collaborative empirical research between academic and practising lawyers combining to produce a book that is unique in its concern with the issues that affect all lawyers in common law systems today. These lawyers are naturally apprehensive about the unprecedented investigation, criticism, and attack which they face. They fear for their livelihood and status in the community while sharing the public's sense of unease. Searching for immediate changes that might placate economic deregulators, the press and politicians, is one of the aims of this collection of original essays, many of which are written by people who are, or were, practitioners of law.
• This is reflected in the types of initiatives which are debated in this volume - to reform adversarial rules of procedure, to introduce mediational alternatives, and to curb systematic biases. The aims of this volume are therefore to reflect some of the key issues, to suggest possible arguments which might lead to solutions, and to provide readers, particularly those involved in practice, with strategies for devising more 'ethical' practices.

Subject

• Legal ethics > United States
• Practice of law > United States
• Legal ethics
• Practice of law
• Ethik
• Recht
• Rechtsethik
• Aufsatzsammlung
• United States
• USA
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Legal regulation, ethical standard-setting, and institutional design / Charles Sampford with Christine Parker -- Portia redux : another look at gender, feminism, and legal ethics / Carrie Menkel-Meadow -- Ethics and large law firms / Elizabeth Nosworthy -- Change, responsibility, and the legal profession / Stephen Parker -- Speculating on justice : the ethics and jurisprudence of contingency fees / David Luban -- Some proposed changes in civil procedure : their practical benefits and ethical rationale / G.L. Davies and Sally A. Sheldon -- Family lawyering and legal ethics / Richard H.S. Tur -- Prosecutorial ethics / Ken Crispin -- Judicial fairness and systemic bias / David Wood -- Ethical dilemmas : what Australian lawyers say about them / Debra Lamb.

ISBN

• 019825945X
• 9780198259459

LCCN

95041863

OCLC

• ocm33162871
• 33162871
• SCSB-2124823

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library