Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy, Second Edition

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 consequences

Understand and comply with statutes, procedural rules, and standards of professional conduct while zealously representing your client

Prevent 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 claims

Abuse of discovery

Conflicts of interest

Burdensome interrogatories

Trial in the media

Voir dire and juror investigation

Deposition tactics

Special fee arrangements

Settlement negotiations

Withdrawal and client confidentiality

Arguing false inferences based on inadmissible evidence, plus detailed attention to the special problems that arise in criminal defense, insurance defense, and class actions.