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Contents

Professional Responsibility: Examples & Explanations

Summary of Contents

Chapter 1 The Many Ways of Regulating Lawyers

PART I. THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP

Chapter 2 Formation and Termination
Chapter 3 Aspects of an Ongoing Relationship
Chapter 4 Attorneys’ Fees and Transactions with Clients
Chapter 5 Representing Entities and Groups
Chapter 6 Incompetence: Remedies for Malpractice and Constitutional Ineffectiveness
Chapter 7 Confidentiality and Secrecy
Chapter 8 Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Doctrine
Chapter 9 Professional Duty of Confidentiality

PART II. SECRETS AND LIES: PERJURY AND THE PROBLEM OF CLIENT FRAUD

Chapter 10 Perjury in Civil and Criminal Litigation: The Lawyer’s ‘‘Trilemma’’
Chapter 11 Attorney Conduct in Litigation: Forensic Tactics, Fair and Foul
Chapter 12 The Client Fraud Problem

PART III. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Chapter 13 Overview of Conflicts of Interest
Chapter 14 Current Client Conflicts
Chapter 15 Current Client Conflicts Issues in Specific Contexts
Chapter 16 Former Client Conflicts and Migratory Lawyers
Chapter 17 Personal-Interest Conflicts

PART IV. ORGANIZATION AND REGULATION OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION

Chapter 18 Attracting Clients: Advertising and Solicitation
Chapter 19 Associations of Lawyers
Chapter 20 The Organized Bar

Index