Fair fight : legal ethics for litigators /
"Fair Fight is a useful and entertaining legal ethics resource"--
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Chicago, Illinois :
American Bar Association, Litigation Section,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | http://vlex.com/source/55662 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Five steps to a fair fight
- Beginning a client-lawyer relationship : actual, implied, and prospective clients
- Ending a client-lawyer relationship : former clients
- Court appointments, pro bono, and unpopular clients
- Joint clients
- Insurance defense and other third-party funders
- Entity and government clients
- Clients who morph
- Fees, glorious fees
- Competence
- Control
- Communication
- Confidentiality
- Privilege and work product
- Conflicts of interest
- Getting out : when you must or may withdraw from a representation
- Supervisory and supervised lawyers
- Court orders and court rules
- Crime and fraud
- Bias
- The investigation
- Contacting nonclients
- Discovery
- Dealing with experts
- Negotiations and settlement
- Candor to the tribunal : frivolous claims, expediting litigation, and disclosure obligations
- Tribunal impartiality : fairness, ex parte contact, publicity, and lawyer as witness
- Appeals
- Judicial ethics for lawyers
- Fair fight : legal ethics for litigators.