Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, Third Edition (Aspen Casebook)

Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law is a problem-based casebook sure to generate lively class discussion. Using real-world problems and cases, with emphasis on issues students are likely to face in their early years of practice, it places students in the lawyers' position to engage in simultaneous strategic and ethical analysis of each problem.

The Third Edition includes hundreds of new examples and introduces new material on current ethical issues. Outsourcing, contract lawyers, Internet advertising, and nonlawyer ownership of law firms are given thorough treatment, as are recent changes in rules and Justice Department policies. Sure to stimulate discussion, the companion website features a new recorded interview with the Guantanamo defense lawyer ordered to represent an unwilling defendant.

Thoroughly updated, the revised Third Edition presents:

• Hundreds of new examples.
• New material on the changing legal profession, including:
  • Developments on the acceleration of outsourcing legal work to India.
  • Law firms' increased use of contract lawyers.
  • Internet advertising.
  • Third-party financing of lawsuits.
  • International pressures to permit both multidisciplinary practice and nonlawyer ownership of law firms.
• Rules changes to allow screening to resolve some imputed conflicts of interest, and changes in the ethics rules for prosecutors.
• Changes in the Justice Department’s policy toward waivers of the corporate attorney-client privilege.
• Several new problems, including one based on the case of a former prosecutor who withheld evidence of another prosecutor's misdeed, resulting in the conviction of an innocent man.