Legal Ethics (West Legal Studies Series)

Book Description
Legal Ethics employs a variety of techniques to breathe life into a topic that can be sometimes tedious to study. Readers will be attracted to current and classic case law, hypothetical situations, many real-life examples of lawyer and nonlawyer instances of misconduct and discussions of famous and infamous people as their situations relate to the topic. Examples of this material include a discussion of the disbarment proceedings against President Bill Clinton and F. Lee Bailey and news events involving Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, Newt Gingrich, Patty Hearst and Timothy McVeigh. Supporting material features more than 70 legal ethics Web sites, a complete glossary and significant ethics codes designed for paralegal and legal assistants. The book also boasts an exceptional instructor’s manual featuring chapter outlines, teaching suggestions, full case briefs for all case law in the text, chapter review questions and complete test banks for each chapter. Benefits: • dozens of real-life examples and cases bring the topic of legal ethics to life • thorough explanations teach the reader the how’s and why’s of the material • fully supported citations enable readers to conduct their own research from the text • the many devices used to impart the material enhance the reader’s interest and retention

Book Info
Text uses real-life examples of lawyers' and non lawyers' misbehaviors, figures and illustrations, case law, hypothetical situations, review questions, and news events of famous and infamous people to bring the subject of legal ethics alive. For undergraduate students. Includes index, glossary, and review questions. Softcover. DLC: Legal ethics--United States.

About the Author
Kent Kauffman: Paralegal Program Chair, Ivy Tech State College, Fort Wayne, Indiana; graduate of Temple University and The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University; licensed to practice law in Indiana; member of American Bar Association and Indiana State Bar Association; multiple recipient of "Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers"; mediator


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Addressing students studying for non-lawyer roles in the legal field (paralegals, legal assistants, etc.) this textbook covers legal ethics from the perspective of the principles that affect how the practice of law is regulated. The principles are then applied to the non-lawyer roles in separate chapters. Subsequent chapters cover such issues as the unauthorized practice of law, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, advertising and solicitation, fees and fee sharing, and other miscellaneous topics. Appendixes contain the model guidelines of important professional organizations. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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