Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (705 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0735565295 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 976 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Covering all of the essential issues and topics, Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, Second Edition, offers straightforward exposition and a combination of principal cases and real-case problems that generate lively class discussion and encourage strategic analysis. Engage your students with a contemporary approach that features: thorough coverage of the ethics codes and other law governing lawyers, including legal malpractice, disqualification, wrongful discharge, and criminal malfeasance concise, clear explanation of lawyer law in
"Shoddily put together substantively and otherwise" according to A Prime Amazonian. This textbook is vaguely written, unorganized, and poorly edited. The ABA rules are sprinkled throughout in a haphazard manner in no particular order except as relevant to the particular chapter. There is no comprehensive collection of these rules for easy access anywhere throughout.There are few cases to assist in illustrating these rules; the authors have apparently spent all their time transforming helpful cases into open ended hypothetical problems that are of little to no help in actually informing the reader. This textbook format is unique and. Uh. It's a textbook. K. K. Smith Nobody buys textbooks because they want to, they do it because they are required to by a professor. This textbook is no different. It is fine, it has a sensible layout and reasonable problems. Whatever. It's a textbook.. Jones said An absolutely worthless examination of the ABA Model Rules. There is little value in a textbook that offers such bare guidance into legal ethics. This semester, my class struggled to deal with this piece of garbage. Presenting few exemplary cases and relying primarily on abstract hypotheticals, few putative explanations were ever provided. Related to this point, the layout of the book is also particularly poor; it is a waste of my time to ask me to read hypotheticals, but then not introduce the underlying material until subsequent sections. It would make sense to as students to read a hypothetical as a start