1st Edition

Lawyers' Ethics

By Allan Gerson Copyright 1980
280 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

Frequently the ethical attorney finds himself in a position where he can no longer reconcile con-flicting responsibilities he owes to his clients with those he owes so-ciety and himself. Faced with the dilemma of choice among coun-tervailing and competing obliga-tions, he has little training and precedence to guide him. If he is over forty, the overwhelming probability is that he never took a... Read more
I: The Legal Profession's Role in American Society; The United States: A Unique Government of Lawyers; The Role of the Lawyer in America; Attack on Lawyers and the Legal Profession; Access to the Legal System in Historical Perspective; Legal Education; II: Lawyers and the Search for Truth: Conflict or Harmony?; The Art of Legal Advocacy: Duties and Obligations; The Lawyer as a Hired Gun; The Adversary Nature of the American Legal System: A Historical Perspective 1; The Search for Truth: An Umpireal View; The Attorneys’ Duty to Disclose the Commission of Criminal Acts—Two Views on the Lake Pleasant Case; Attempting to Regulate Perjurious Testimony: The Massachusetts Experience; Perjury: Stay In or Pull Out?; III: Regulating Professional Ethics: The Alger Hiss Reinstatement Controversy; The Brief for the Petitioner, Alger Hiss; Judgment of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; Reinstatement Dilemma: The Hiss Decision and Its Effects Upon Disciplinary Enforcement; IV: Special Perspectives; The Washington Lawyer: Some Musings; The International Lawyer: Extra-territorial Application of Professional Responsibility Standards; Ethics in Medicine and Law: Standards and Conflicts

Biography

Allan Gerson