"Most everything we do as attorneys can be reduced to a checklist-a series of steps that if followed will allow you to achieve a given legal task-interview a client, prepare a pleading, or defend a deposition. To ensure we dot all our i's and cross all our t's, we as lawyers should take the time to list all the tasks we do and reduce each of those tasks to a series of steps that if followed will accomplish those tasks effectively and efficiently. Here you will find all my checklists, every last one, that I rely upon when representing my clients. I hope you find them helpful and that you take the time to modify them (and add to them) as you find necessary for your unique practice"--

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.

This completely rewritten and updated new edition of a practical text continues to provide a firm introduction to law and legal processes and their relation to social work practice. Using Clinton's welfare reform act of 1996, Albert provides a conceptual framework to illustrate how socio-legal problems emerge in the welfare state, and presents the skills base necessary for effective social work response. A new section on socio-legal issues highlights many fields where social worker-lawyer partnerships can occur, such as civil rights and advocacy, the death penalty, liability for neglect in nursing homes, informed consent and medical treatment, and much more. Filled with techniques for reading and understanding judicial opinion, legislative statues, and bills, this new edition will appeal to all professors of law and social work courses, as well as courses on the welfare state.