Your Lawyer: A User's Guide - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1422430391 ISBN 13: 9781422430392

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The American public spends dearly each year on legal services. And those legal services are provided to handle the very most important matters clients face — the purchase of a home and other important transactions, wills, custody issues and divorce, any time a client has to go to court.

Yet as important as a client’s entry onto the legal terrain may be, more often than not it is a trip through unfamiliar territory without a map or a compass. While in an ideal world each lawyer could be counted on to share this information face-to-face with each new client, the truth is that this does not always occur. Currently, there is no guide that provides clients with the information they need about what their lawyers owe them. The authors hope this book will provide both the map and the compass.

The purpose is to provide you with the information you should know about the ethical obligations of your lawyer. While this book is no substitute for informed conversation between your counsel and you (itself an ethical requirement), as one famous retailer observes, "An informed consumer is our best customer." The more clients know about these matters, the more likely clients’ encounters with lawyers and our legal system will be rewarding ones." The authors hope that you will read this book in that spirit.

The book includes the following features:

Cartoons designed to illustrate topics in each chapter. Boxes that outline the highlights of each chapter and provide you with questions you should ask your lawyer about a particular topic.

Bolded terms in the text which are defined in a glossary at the end of the book.

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Lawrence J. Fox

Lawrence J. Fox has practiced law for over 35 years, first in the legal services program for the indigent, and since 1972 at Drinker Biddle & Reath in Philadelphia. Larry is the I. Grant Irey Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches students professional responsibility. Larry chaired the ABA Ethics Committee which is responsible for the drafting and interpretation of lawyer rules of conduct. Larry also teaches professional responsibility to practicing lawyers in continuing legal education courses held around the country. The United States State Department sent Larry to Argentina and China to instruct lawyers and judges in those two countries on lawyer and judicial ethics. He has appeared on the television shows CNN Crossfire, Nightline, MSNBC and the Today Show.

Susan R. Martyn

Susan Martyn is Stoepler Professor of Law and Values at the University of Toledo College of Law and has authored four books and over thirty articles in law reviews and interdisciplinary journals. In addition to this volume, she and Larry Fox have published three other books about lawyer’s ethics in the past three years: a casebook for law students entitled Traversing the Ethical Minefield: Problems, Law and Professional Responsibility, a professional standards volume to accompany Traversing with W. Bradley Wendel entitled The Law Governing Lawyers: National Rules, Standards, Statutes, and State Lawyer Codes, and a lawyer’s deskbook entitled Red Flags: A Lawyer’s Handbook on Legal Ethics. Professor Martyn’s work flows out of her service on several national bodies that have helped shape the law that governs lawyer conduct. She acted as an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers (1987-2000), and was one of thirteen members of the American Bar Association’s Ethics 2000 Commission, (1997-2002). She and Larry Fox also offer legal ethics education programs to lawyers across the country. Professor Martyn is a member of the Michigan and Ohio Bars.

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• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1422430391
• ISBN 13: 9781422430392
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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