The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

The rules regulating the behavior of lawyers and judges continue to grow and change at an accelerating pace. Regulation of Lawyers: Statutes and Standards, 2009 Concise Edition provides an overview of the major changes and updates since the last edition as well as possible future changes under consideration. The Concise Edition includes everything contained in the full edition except the ethics rules and related statutes from California, The District of Columbia, and New York. This supplement has many special features that capture the history, complexity, context, and variety of the ABA Model Rules. The 2009 edition contains numerous updates, including: Important new state variations of the Model Rules Details about a proposed conflicts screening provision for Model Rule 1.10 that may be adopted in 2009 The text of Rule 502 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, which now governs the effect of an inadvertent disclosure on the attorney-client privilege The ABA's new Model Rule for Registration of In-House Counsel Newly adopted provisions in New York's Code of Professional Responsibility (in the expanded version of the book)

This book is about the role of lawyers in constructing a just society. Its central objective is to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between lawyers' commercial aims and public aspirations. Drawing on interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, it explores whether lawyers can transcend self-interest to meaningfully contribute to systems of political accountability, ethical advocacy and distributional fairness. Its contributors, some of the world's leading scholars of the legal profession, offer evidence that although justice is possible, it is never complete. Ultimately, how much - and what type of - justice prevails depends on how lawyers respond to, and reshape, the political and economic conditions in which they practise. As the essays demonstrate, the possibility of justice is diminished as lawyers pursue self-regulation in the service of power; it is enhanced when lawyers mobilize - in the political arena, workplace and law school - to contest it.