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.

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Rule of law has vanished in America’s criminal justice system. Prosecutors decide whom to punish; most accused never face a jury; policing is inconsistent; plea bargaining is rampant; and draconian sentencing fills prisons with mostly minority defendants. A leading criminal law scholar looks to history for the roots of these problems—and solutions.

Boldly advocates scrapping the entire legal system and building a new one. Should be sent directly to America's top leaders. -- Justice for all? For the first time an active trial lawyer, with 25 years of experience in the courtroom, exposes the reasons our courts are failing. -- Uses thought-provoking cases to illustrate the failures of our trial system. -- By page 200 the reader has a conceptional understanding of the U.S. legal system -- why it doesn't work, why it never will, and how a non-adversarial, non-jury system could bring it under control. -- Why just reforming the present system only makes it worse.Middle-income or low-income citizens cannot afford to utilize the present system in day-to-day matters; the economics of the practice of law forbids it. Citizens cheated by the personal injury system, destroyed by the divorce courts, or railroaded by the criminal courts are confused and angered by the trial system. People want solutions now Mr. Sparkman presents a powerful treatise into the present American legal system, and proposes: scrap our trial system and build a new one, effecting the most fundamental change in American government since 1789. The penalty for ignoring the changes suggested will be the privatization of the legal system, he says, and if it is unthinkable that an essential government institution can be privatized, look at our postal service.The Edison Society is pleased to inform you that you have been selected to receive the Edison Society 'Excellence in Innovation Award'. -- Thomas E. Hughs, Founder & President of the Edison SocietyI am glad to finally see an attorney who told the truth. -- Edmund D. Mann, Professor of ParalegalStudies, Centereach, NY