This text is designed to help a law student recognize and understand the basic principles and issues of law covered in a law school course on professional responsibility. It can be used both as a study aid when preparing for classes and as a review of the subject matter when studying for an examination. The law is succinctly …
On the Law in General (Sources in Early Modern Economics, Ethics, and Law)
On the Law in General is a single chapter of Girolamo Zanchi’s Tractatus de Redemptione, part of what has been called an unfinished Protestant “summa” akin to that of Thomas Aquinas. In this selection, Zanchi examines the relationship of natural law to human law, church tradition, customs, divine laws, and the Mosaic Law. This treatment offers a rigorous …
Legal Services Regulation at the Crossroads: Justitia’s Legions
‘Noel Semple’s outstanding book Legal Services Regulation at the Crossroads: Justitia’s Legions is an exceptional overview, critique, and reevaluation of lawyer regulation in the common law world. He clearly and concisely delineates the widening regulatory gulf between North American jurisdictions (which he calls ‘professionalist-independent’) and the rest of the common law world (the ‘competitive-consumerist’ approach). Semple compares these …
Lawyers Crossing Lines is a collection of true stories about lawyers from all segments of the legal profession who transgressed ethical boundaries. Most of them ended up being sanctioned by their state Bar, sued for malpractice, prosecuted, or some combination of all three. All of the cases are rich in detail, many are bizarre, and in a few …
Applied ethics has been gaining wide attention in a variety of curriculums, and there is growing awareness of the need for ethical training in general. Well-publicized ethical problems such as the Challenger disaster, the Ford Pinto case and the collapse of corporations such as Enron have highlighted the need to rethink the role of ethics in the workplace. …
A Career-Saving Guide for Private Investigators, Detectives & Security Police Understanding the laws of private investigations can keep you out of court, the unemployment line…or even jail! Written by a highly experienced private investigator. Topics include surveillance vs. stalking, trespassing, laws surrounding ruses & impersonations, wiretapping & eavesdropping, arrests and interrogations, GPS tracking devices, camera/video …
Starting A Law Practice and Professionalism for New Lawyers (Aspen Select)
Four years ago, Mr. Benikov was loading bread trucks in a bakery in South Phoenix. Today, Mr. Benikov owns his own successful criminal defense practice and is a law professor. When Mr. Benikov started his own practice and left the bakery, he literally didn’t know where the courthouse was. This book is about how his law practice was …
In Fiduciary Law, Tamar Frankel examines the structure, principles, themes, and objectives of fiduciary law. Fiduciaries, which include corporate managers, money managers, lawyers, and physicians among others, are entrusted with money or power. Frankel explains how fiduciary law is designed to offer protection from abuse of this method of safekeeping. She deals with fiduciaries in …
Legal Ethics: Rules, Statutes, and Comparisons, 2014 Edition
As with the prior editions of Legal Ethics: Rules, Statutes and Comparisons, this new 2014 Edition includes a section that compares in detail every ABA rule 1983 version with every ABA rule 2002 to present, including the changes include those proposed by the ABAs “Ethics 20/20” Commission and approved by the House of Delegates in August 2012, as …
Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions in Criminal Justice (Ethics in Crime and Justice)
New examples of white collar crime, business scandals from Wall Street to Main Street, and more are all featured in ETHICAL DILEMMAS AND DECISIONS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE. Real-life cases and situations demonstrate the significance of ethics in the world of criminal justice today for those studying or contemplating a career in criminal …