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Title:
Professional responsibility
Author:
Wendel, W. Bradley, 1969- author.
ISBN:
9781543805789
Edition:
Sixth edition.
Physical Description:
xxv, 591 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Series:
Examples & explanations

Examples & explanations series.
Contents:
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 -- Concurrent conflicts -- Concurrent 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 -- The judicial role.