Alternative Perspectives On Lawyers And Legal Ethics

Author : Reid Mortensen,Francesca Bartlett,Kieran Tranter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136937408

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Alternative Perspectives on Lawyers and Legal Ethics by Reid Mortensen,Francesca Bartlett,Kieran Tranter Pdf

The study of legal ethics and the legal profession has emerged as a distinct and important field of scholarship over the last 30 years. However, as in other disciplines, academic recognition can in turn entrench static and powerful meta-theories and narratives about professional ethos and practise, this collection seeks to disrupt this homogenising impulse and to present alternative voices by bringing together a range of international scholars writing about legal ethics and the legal profession. The book features significant and timely contributions which take contemporary and non-mainstream perspectives on the current and future shape of the legal profession. The essays not only describe the rapidly changing profession but canvas different approaches to scholarship on the legal profession. The collection seeks to explore a diverse and contextualised profession from a number of angles. Authors examine how the public sees lawyers and how lawyers see their own profession; how we practise law and how this practice shapes lawyers; how such cultural and professional practice intersects with institutional structures of the law to create certain legal outcomes; and how we regulate the legal profession to modify or institute ethical practice. The volume provides insights into legal culture and ethics from the perspective of authors from Australia, Canada, England, the United States, New Zealand and Kenya – a diversity of national perspectives that give valuable insights into developments in the profession at the local and global level. It also illustrates diversity within the profession by tracing differing professional career trajectories based on raced or gendered barriers, alternative ethical strategies and the impact of organisational cultures in which lawyers practice.

Author : Reid Mortensen,Francesca Bartlett,Kieran Tranter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136937415

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Alternative Perspectives on Lawyers and Legal Ethics by Reid Mortensen,Francesca Bartlett,Kieran Tranter Pdf

The study of legal ethics and the legal profession has emerged as a distinct and important field of scholarship over the years. This book offers contemporary and non-mainstream perspectives on the shape of the legal profession. It examines how the public sees lawyers and how lawyers see their own profession.

Author : William H. Simon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674043664

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The Practice of Justice by William H. Simon Pdf

Should a lawyer keep a client's secret even when disclosure would exculpate a person wrongly accused of crime? The Practice of Justice is a fresh look at this and other traditional questions about the ethics of lawyering.

Author : Andrew Boon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509905188

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International Perspectives on the Regulation of Lawyers and Legal Services by Andrew Boon Pdf

This collection explores developments in the regulation of legal services by examining the control of the markets in several key countries and in jurisdictions within countries. The contributions consider emerging adjustments in regulatory structures and methods; examine the continuing role, if any, of professionals and how this may be changing; and speculate on the future of legal services regulation in each jurisdiction. The introductory and concluding chapters draw together similarities, differences and conclusions regarding directions of change in the regulation of legal services. They consider the emergence of alternatives to professionalism as a means of regulating legal services and some implications for the rule of law.

Author : ALICE. WOOLLEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0433505877

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UNDERSTANDING LAWYERS' ETHICS IN CANADA. by ALICE. WOOLLEY Pdf

Author : Christine Parker,Adrian Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107641730

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Inside Lawyers' Ethics by Christine Parker,Adrian Evans Pdf

This book is designed to help law students and new lawyers understand and modify their own ethical priorities, not just because this knowledge makes it easier to practise law and earn an income, but because self-aware, ethical legal practice is right and feels better than anything else.

Author : Andrew Boon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509925230

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Lawyers and the Rule of Law by Andrew Boon Pdf

This book examines lawyers' contributions to creating and maintaining the rule of law, one of the pillars of a liberal democracy. It moves from the European Enlightenment to the modern day, exploring the role of judges, government lawyers, and private practitioners in creating, defining, and being defined by, the demands of modern society. The book is divided into 4 parts representing the big themes. The first part considers lawyers' contribution to the growth of constitutionalism, the second, the formulation of roles and identities, and the third the formation of values. The fourth part focuses on the challenges faced by lawyers and the rule of law in the past 50 years, the neoliberal period, and how they challenge both conceptions of lawyers and the rule of law. Each part is illustrated by defining events, from the execution of Charles I, through the Nuremberg Trials, to the insurrection by supporters of Donald Trump in January 2021. Although the focus is on England and Wales, parallel developments in other jurisdictions, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA, are considered. This allows analysis of lawyers' historical and contemporary engagement with the rule of law in jurisdictional systems based on the Common Law. Each chapter is thematic, but the passage through the book is broadly chronological.

Author : Jonathan Herring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Legal ethics
ISBN : 9780198788928

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Legal Ethics by Jonathan Herring Pdf

Who would or should defend a potential murderer in court? How do professions regulate themselves? Is 'no win-no fee' an ethical system? Where is the line in a 'suitable' client-advocate relationship? Jonathan Herring provides a clear and engaging overview of legal ethics, highlighting that the issues surrounding professional conduct are not always black and white and raising interesting questions about how lawyers act and what their role entails. Key topics, such as confidentiality, negligence, and fees are covered, with references throughout to the professional codes of conduct. Features throughout the textbook to aid student learning include the highlighting of key cases, principles, and definitions; the inclusion of a variety of viewpoints through coverage of cases, popular media, and scholarly articles; and use inclusion of 'digging deeper' and 'alternative viewpoint' boxes which encourage critical reflection and better understanding of key theories and topics. The well developed online resource centre includes Podcasts linked to the 'what would you do' chapter features, video debates, relevant updates and web links.

Author : Christine Parker,Adrian Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139461283

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Inside Lawyers' Ethics by Christine Parker,Adrian Evans Pdf

Legal ethics is often described as an oxymoron or contradiction in terms - lay people find the concept amusing and lawyers can find ethics impossible. The best lawyers are those who have come to grips with their own values and actively seek to improve their ethical practise. This book is designed to help law students and new lawyers understand and modify their own ethical priorities, not just because this knowledge makes it easier to practise law and earn an income, but because self-aware, ethical legal practice is right and feels better than anything else. Packed with case studies of ethical scandals and dilemmas from real life legal practice in Australia, each chapter delves into the most difficult issues lawyers face. From lawyers' part in corporate fraud to the ethics of time-based billing, Parker and Evans expose the values that underlie current practice and set out the alternatives ethical lawyers might follow.

Author : Noel Semple
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781784711665

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Legal Services Regulation at the Crossroads by Noel Semple Pdf

Who should be allowed to provide legal services to others? What characteristics must these services possess? Through a comparative study of English-speaking jurisdictions, this book illuminates the policy choices involved in legal services regulation a

Author : Geoffrey C. Hazard,Angelo Dondi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 0804748829

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Legal Ethics by Geoffrey C. Hazard,Angelo Dondi Pdf

Examining legal ethics within the framework of modern practice, this book identifies two important ethical issues that all lawyers confront: the difference between the role of lawyers and the role of judges in pursuing justice, and the conflicting responsibilities lawyers have to their clients and to the legal system more broadly. In addressing these issues, Legal Ethics provides an explanation of the duties and dilemmas common to practicing lawyers in modern legal systems throughout the world. The authors focus their analysis on lawyers in independent practice in modern capitalist constitutional regimes, including the United States, Japan, Europe, and Latin America, as well as the emerging legal systems in China and the former Soviet bloc, to develop connections between the legal profession and political systems based on the rule of law. They find that although ethical tension is inherent in the legal practice of all these societies, the legal profession is essential to stable political institutions.

Author : Laura Snyder
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781498529808

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Democratizing Legal Services by Laura Snyder Pdf

This book responds to the common objections to alternative business structures, describes the opportunities that such structures offer, exposes how lawyer self-regulation operates to obstruct the modernization of legal services, and includes interviews with persons who have experience with alternative legal service providers in other countries.

Author : Andrew Boon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 819 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782256090

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The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England and Wales by Andrew Boon Pdf

This is the third edition of the leading textbook on legal ethics and the regulation of the legal profession in England and Wales. As such it maps the complex regulatory environment in which the legal profession in England and Wales now operates. It opens with a critical overview of professional ideals, organisation, power and culture and an examination of the mechanisms of professions, exercised through governance, regulation, discipline and education. The core of the book explores the conflict between duties owed to clients (loyalty and confidentiality) and wider duties (to the profession, third parties and society). The final part applies lawyers' ethics to dispute resolution and settlement (litigation, negotiation, advocacy and alternative dispute settlement). Now laid out in a more accessible format and written in a more approachable style, the book is ideal reading for those teaching and learning in the field of legal ethics.

Author : Julian Webb
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000923957

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Leading Works in Legal Ethics by Julian Webb Pdf

This volume reviews and takes stock of legal ethics, at a time when the legal profession globally is experiencing considerable change and challenges, through a re-evaluation of writings that are in some way foundational to the field. Legal ethics, understood here as the study of the ethics and professional regulation of lawyers, has emerged as a novel and important field of study over the last 50 years. It is also one that displays considerable diversity in its scholarship, with distinctive philosophical and interdisciplinary approaches emerging over the years to underpin and supplement the doctrinal ‘law on lawyering’. With contributions from leading and emerging scholars from the United States, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, this collection offers not just critical insights into the authors’ chosen texts, but a thought-provoking commentary on the current state of legal ethics scholarship and its future directions. In addition to being an essential resource for scholars and students of legal ethics theory, it will also be of interest to academics and researchers in legal theory, the philosophy of law, and applied ethics.

Author : Michael Robertson,Lillian Corbin,Kieran Tranter,Francesca Bartlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136894503

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The Ethics Project in Legal Education by Michael Robertson,Lillian Corbin,Kieran Tranter,Francesca Bartlett Pdf

The contributions in this volume suggest that "the ethics project in legal education" is increasingly an international one. Even though the strength of commitment by both the profession and the legal academy to "ethics learning" within law schools varies, two fundamental questions confront all who work in this area. First, what is it that we want our students to learn (or, perhaps, in what manner do we want our students to develop) from the teaching of "legal ethics"? Second, how can we create a learning environment that will encourage the nature and quality of learning we think is important? All the contributors to this volume take a strong stand on the importance of ethical legal practice and the role of law schools in developing students’ capacities in this area. They share a belief in the essential need to encourage law students to engage with the moral dimensions of legal practice. The questions that these scholars grapple with are therefore not of the "should we be teaching this?" variety, but "how might we best to go about doing this, so that our efforts within law schools really make some difference?" Each of the chapters in this volume adds uniquely to our understanding of these matters.