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

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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.

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Table Of Contents

Part I: Proceedings Before Trial

Commencing Litigation: Ethics and Accountability
Commencing Litigation: Judicial Sanctions
Conflicts of Interest
The Advocate-Witness Problem
Investigation
Discovery
Lawyers, Free Speech, and the Media
Trial Tactics - Some Opening Moves

Part II: The Trial

Relations with Jurors
The Direct Examiner
The Cross-Examiner
Closing Argument

Part III: Special Problems

Special Problems in the Criminal Defense
Special Problems in Class Action

Part IV: Some Final Matters

Negotiation and Settlement
Withdrawal
Appeal
Disciplines, the Court, and Ethics Committees

Table of Cases

Bibliography

Index of Errata

Index

Ed Imwinkelried

University of California, Davis
Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Professor of Law Emeritus

Ed Imwinkelried is one of the most prolific American legal scholars. He is the author or coauthor of several multi-volume treatises in addition to THE

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