W. Bradley Wendel, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School.
Fifth edition.
New York :
Wolters Kluwer,
[2016]
xxiv, 574 pages ;
26 cm.
Examples & explanations series
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 -- Concurrent conflicts -- Concurrent conflicts issues in specific contexts -- Former-client conflicts and migratory lawyers -- Personal-interest conflicts -- Attracting clients : advertising and solicitation -- The organized bar -- The judicial role.
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"Beginning with the formation of the attorney-client relationship, the book proceeds through topics including attorneys' fees, malpractice and ineffective assistance of counsel, confidentiality and privilege rules, conflicts of interest, witness perjury and litigation misconduct, advertising and solicitation, admission to practice, and the organization of the legal profession. Coverage includes all subjects that are tested on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE)."--