Regulation of Lawyers : Problems of Law and Ethics

By Stephen Gillers and Gillers Stephen

Book Overview

For its Sixth Edition, this extremely popular casebook continues to mix up-to-date materials with realistic problems to illustrate and demonstrate the full range of ethical issues facing lawyers and judges. Regulation of Lawyers builds on the strengths that earned it such widespread adoption: written by Professor Stephen Gillers, a recognized national authority on the subject in-depth, thorough treatment of the issues in a lively, accessible style covers the full range of professional responsibility topics, including conflicts of interest, special lawyer roles, and avoiding and redressing professional failure with three chapters on control of quality realistic problems (many of which are new or revised) help students Understand The rules and regulations that will govern their professional behavior combines cases, law review articles, excerpts from a wide variety of popular sources, and engaging problems to give variety and vividness accompanied by the most comprehensive annual statutory supplement in the field Regulation of Lawyers: Statutes and Standards, co-authored by Roy D. Simon with major, minor, and state variations of the rules governing lawyers and judges the Sixth Edition incorporates important new material: the no-contact and other ethics rules as they apply to state and federal law enforcers proposed changes in the Model Rules of Professional Conduct new cases on excessive fees (Matter of Fordham), using gender biased terms in a deposition (Mullaney v. Aude), liability for securities and common law fraud arising out of a negotiation for investment in a business (Rubin v. Schottenstein, Zox, & Dunn), And The unauthorized practice of law by lawyers from outside a state (Birbrower, Montalbano, Condon & Frank, P.C. v. Superior Court) coverage of the Clinton/Lewinsky matter And The ethical questions raised by the investigation conducted by Ken Starr to give students a clear understanding of their professional responsibilities from the client-lawyer relationship to their First Amendment rights use the casebook that has been proven effective in the classroom: Gillers' Regulation of Lawyers, Sixth Edition .

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735524548
• ISBN13: 9780735524545
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Aspen Law & Business
• Length: 1070 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 6.5" x 1.5"

Customer Reviews

A very comprehensive, easy to understand ethics text

I think the other reviewer, who gave this text one star, must not have invested sufficient time in understanding the material. The Gillers text is very comprehensive in its treatment, which is a STRENGTH. It is the nature of ethics that even well-chosen ethics cases will usually involve more than one issue, and the author has chosen to reinforce certain concepts over and over instead of shielding the student from this, which sometimes involves looks ahead to certain topics. In addition, the ethics If the other reviewer wanted a treatment that just touched the high points of the rules, enough to pass the MPRE, he read the wrong book. Ethics is a massive, often complicated subject that is rapidly evolving due to our current place in history. Hence many of the cases illustrating key points will be bar association decisions from certain states, or decisions from seemingly minor state courts. The author has done exhaustive research to locate and summarize these cases across all jurisdictions, due to the many differences across jurisdictions. The book also contains extensive case studies of important topics outside the opinions (for example the "Triangle Shirtwaist" fire, and what happened on cross of a key witness). These sections help to break up the many case opinions, and help keep the material interesting and illustrative. The problems are, in my opinion, very well constructed. Instead of being five-minute exercises dealing with just one issue, they are designed to be difficult and represent possible real-world situations, as well as to reinforce previous material. This means that if you do a problem on malpractice, for example, you should expect to potentially deal with conflicts of interest and many other issues. A teacher who adequately explores the problems with her students could almost teach the material just from the problems and the rules. The book is so well-organized that even a perennial C student could read it and understand the material with some effort, and become a relative master of ethics. Perhaps that's not what the other reviewer wanted. If you want to REALLY learn ethics, including issues beyond the scope of the rules proper, I can't imagine a better book. If you cover the material and give it the attention it deserves, you also couldn't possibly fail the MPRE.