Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in Context by Leslie C. Levin (Engl

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How do lawyers resolve ethical dilemmas in the everyday context of their practice? What are the issues that commonly arise, and how do lawyers determine the best ways to resolve them? This book presents research on ethical decision making in a variety of practice contexts, including corporate litigation, securities, immigration, and divorce law.

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How do lawyers resolve ethical dilemmas in the everyday context of their practice? What are the issues that commonly arise, and how do lawyers determine the best ways to resolve them? Until recently, efforts to answer these questions have focused primarily on rules and legal doctrine rather than the real-life situations lawyers face in legal practice. The first book to present empirical research on ethical decision making in a variety of practice contexts, including corporate litigation, securities, immigration, and divorce law, Lawyers in Practice fills a substantial gap in the existing literature. Following an introduction emphasizing the increasing importance of understanding context in the legal profession, contributions focus on ethical dilemmas ranging from relatively narrow ethical issues to broader problems of professionalism, including the prosecutor's obligation to disclose evidence, the management of conflicts of interest, and loyalty to clients and the court. Each chapter details the resolution of a dilemma from the practitioner's point of view that is, in turn, set within a particular community of practice. Timely and practical, this book should be required reading for law students as well as students and scholars of law and society.

Author Biography

Leslie C. Levin is professor of law at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Lynn Mather is professor of law and political science at the University at Buffalo Law School, State University of New York. She is coeditor of the Chicago Series in Law and Society and coauthor of several books, including Private Lawyers and the Public Interest.

Table of Contents

Preface Contributors Part I. Introductory Perspectives on Ethics in Context Chapter 1 Why Context Matters Lynn Mather and Leslie C. Levin Chapter 2 Some Realism about Legal Realism for Lawyers: Assessing the Role of Context in Legal Ethics David B. Wilkins Chapter 3 Whose Ethics? The Benchmark Problem in Legal Ethics Research Elizabeth Chambliss Part II. Decision Making in Communities of Legal Practice Family and Immigration Chapter 4 Client Grievances and Lawyer Conduct: The Challenges of Divorce Practice Lynn Mather and Craig A. McEwen Chapter 5 Immigration Lawyers and the Lying Client Leslie C. Levin Personal Injury Chapter 6 Plaintiffs' Lawyers and the Tension between Professional Norms and the Need to Generate Business Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin Chapter 7 Betwixt and Between: The Ethical Dilemmas of Insurance Defense Herbert M. Kritzer Corporate Settings Chapter 8 The Ethics of Constructing Truth: The Corporate Litigator's Approach Kimberly Kirkland Chapter 9 Transnational Lawyering: Clients, Ethics, and Regulation John Flood Chapter 10 The Ethics of In-House Practice Sung Hui Kim Corporate Specialties Chapter 11 The Ethical Lives of Securities Lawyers Patrick Schmidt Chapter 12 Scientists at the Bar: The Professional World of Patent Lawyers John M. Conley and Lynn Mather Criminal Law Chapter 13 Prosecutors' Ethics in Context: Influences on Prosecutorial Disclosure Ellen Yaroshefsky and Bruce A. Green Chapter 14 Reinterpreting the Zealous Advocate: Multiple Intermediary Roles of the Criminal Defense Attorney Nicole Martorano Van Cleve Public Interest Lawyers Chapter 15 Legal Services Lawyers: When Conceptions of Lawyering and Values Clash Corey S. Shdaimah Chapter 16 The Accountability Problem in Public Interest Practice: Old Paradigms and New Directions Scott L. Cummings Epilogue Index

Review

"With Lawyers in Practice, Leslie C. Levin and Lynn Mather break new ground. This is the first book to locate the ethical and unethical behavior of lawyers in the details of their varied practice contexts; the contributors make a convincing case that we can only understand lawyers' behavior contextually. Very thorough, illuminating, and persuasive." (Richard Abel, University of California, Los Angeles)"

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"With Lawyers in Practice , Leslie C. Levin and Lynn Mather break new ground. This is the first book to locate the ethical and unethical behavior of lawyers in details of their many varied practice contexts; the contributors make a convincing case that we can only understand lawyers' behavior contextually. Very thorough, illuminating, and persuasive."

Details ISBN0226475166 Short Title LAWYERS IN PRAC Language English ISBN-10 0226475166 ISBN-13 9780226475165 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 174.3 Series Chicago Series in Law and Society Year 2012 Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle Ethical Decision Making in Context Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Edited by Lynn Mather Illustrations 2 line drawings, 2 tables Author Lynn Mather UK Release Date 2012-04-02 Publication Date 2012-04-02 NZ Release Date 2012-04-02 US Release Date 2012-04-02 Pages 392 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 2012-04-01 We've got this

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