The Practice of Justice: A Theory of Lawyers' Ethics

By William H. Simon

Book Overview

Should a lawyer keep a client's secrets even when disclosure would exculpate a person wrongly accused of a crime? To what extent should a lawyer exploit loopholes in ways that enable clients to gain unintended advantages? When can lawyers justifiably make procedural manoeuvres that defeat substantive rights? This book looks at these and other traditional questions about the ethics of lawyering. William Simon, a legal theorist with experience in practice, charges that the profession's standard approach to these questions is incoherent and implausible.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674697111
• ISBN13: 9780674697119
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"