Professional responsibility : examples & explanations /
W. Bradley Wendel.
- 2nd ed.
- Austin : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, c2007.
- xxv, 471 p. ; 26 cm.
- Examples & explanations series .
- Examples & explanations series. .
At the head of title: Aspen Publishers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The many ways of regulating lawyers -- Formation and termination -- Aspects of an ongoing relationship -- Attorneys' fees and transactions with clients -- Representing entities and groups -- Incompetence: remedies for malpractice and constitutional ineffectiveness -- Confidentiality and secrecy -- Attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine -- Professional duty of confidentiality -- Perjury in civil and criminal litigation: the lawyer's "trilemma" -- Attorney conduct in litigation: forensic tactics, fair and foul -- The client fraud problem -- Overview of conflicts of interest -- Current client conflicts -- Current client conflicts issues in specific contexts -- Former client conflicts and migratory lawyers -- Personal-interest conflicts -- Attracting clients: advertising and solicitation -- Associations of lawyers -- The organized bar.