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This volume brings together experts in the field of legal ethics to discuss the dilemmas of practising law. The collection cuts across conventional disciplinary boundaries to address the roles, responsibilities, and regulation of contemporary lawyers.

Title Ethics in practice : lawyers' roles, responsibilities, and regulation / edited by Deborah L. Rhode. [electronic resource]
Edition New Edition.
Publisher Oxford : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2023
Notes Previously issued in print: 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Ethics in Practice -- I. Public Responsibilities in Professional Practice -- 2. The Law as a Profession -- 3. Why Lawyers Can't Just Be Hired Guns -- II. Ethical Theory, Ethical Rules, and Ethical Conduct -- 4. Moral Thinking in Management: An Essential Capability -- 5. Law Practice and the Limits of Moral Philosophy -- 6. The Ethics of Wrongful Obedience -- III. Adversarial Premises and Pathologies -- 7. The Limits of Adversarial Ethics -- 8. Ethics in Litigation: Rhetoric of Crisis, Realities of Practice -- IV. Client Interests and Professional Obligations -- 9. Lawyer Advice and Client Autonomy: Mrs. Jones's Case -- 10. In Hell There Will Be Lawyers Without Clients or Law -- V. Personal Identities and Professional Values -- 11. Beyond "Bleached Out" Professionalism: Defining Professional Responsibility for Real Professionals -- 12. Contested Identities: Task Forces on Gender, Race, and Ethnic Bias and the Obligations of the Legal Profession -- 13. Cultures of Commitment: Pro Bono for Lawyers and Law Students -- Index.
Series Oxford scholarship online
Extent 1 online resource (xvi, 294 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010700342905171
MARC RECORDS
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