Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook

Find practical answers to hard questions about professional conduct -- and avoid wrong answers that could set back your firm -- with this authoritative guide to legal ethics. Drawing on statutes, standards, and actual cases, the authors show you how to: Evaluate tactics for possible ethical consequencesUnderstand and comply with statutes, procedural rules, and standards of professional conduct while zealously representing your clientPrevent your opponents from turning the rules to their own advantage You'll find concise, authoritative discussion of ethical problems that arise in such critical areas as: Investigation of claimsAbuse of discoveryConflicts of interestBurdensome interrogatoriesTrial in the mediaVoir dire and juror investigationDeposition tacticsSpecial fee arrangementsSettlement negotiationsWithdrawal and client confidentialityArguing false inferences based on inadmissible evidence, plus detailed attention to the special problems that arise in criminal defense, insurance defense, and class actions.