| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; Introduction ; Part I: The Legal Profession's Role in American Society ; A. The United States: A Unique Government of Lawyers ; B. The Role of the Lawyer in America ; C. Attack on Lawyers and the Legal Profession ; 1. The American Bar Association Responds ; 2. The President's Counsel Defends |
|
D. Access to the American Legal System in Historical Perspective 1. Against the Bar: a Critique of Professor Auerbach's Views ; 2. Unequal Justice: a Review ; E. Legal Education ; Part II: Lawyers and the Search for Truth: Conflict or Harmony? ; A. The Art of Legal Advocacy: Duties and Obligations ; B. The Lawyer as a Hired Gun |
|
C. The Adversary Nature of the American Legal System: A Historical Perspective D. The Search for Truth: An Umpireal View ; 1. Judge Frankel's Search for Truth ; 2. The Advocate, The Truth, and Judicial Hackles: A Reaction to Judge Frankel's Idea; E. The Attorney's Duty to Disclose the Commission of Criminal Acts-Two Views of the Lake Pleasant Case; 1. The Impropriety of the Attorneys' Actions; 2. The Propriety of the Attorneys' Actions ; F. Attempting to Regulate Perjurious Testimony: The Massachusetts Experience ; G. Perjury: Stay In or Pull Out? |
|
Part III: Regulating Professional Ethics: The Alger Hiss Reinstatement Controversy A. The Brief for the Petitioner, Alger Hiss ; B. Judgment of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ; C. Reinstatement Dilemma: The Hiss Decision and Its Effects upon Disciplinary Enforcement ; Part IV: Special Prespectives ; A. The Washington Lawyer: Some Musings ; B. The International Lawyer: Extra-territorial Application of ProfesƯsional Responsibility Standards |
|
C. Ethics in Medicine and Law: Standards and Conflicts Contributors' Acknowledgments; Index |
| Notes |
Originally published 1980 by Transaction Publishers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Legal ethics -- United States.
|
|
Lawyers -- United States.
|
|
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
|
|
Lawyers
|
|
Legal ethics
|
|
United States
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Gerson, Allan, editor.
|
| ISBN |
9780203787496 |
|
0203787498 |
|
