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Assessing Lawyers' Ethics: A Practitioners' Guide

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780511910104, 9780521764223
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511910104
Google Books ID
pxKARkYJDMYC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2032854 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
280\280
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Legal practitioners operate in an environment of seemingly endless ethical challenges, and against a backdrop of diminishing public opinion about their morality. Based on extensive research, Assessing Lawyers' Ethics argues that lawyers' individual ethics can be assessed and measured in realistic frameworks. When this assessment takes place, legal practitioners are more likely to demonstrate better ethical behaviour as a result of their increased awareness of their own choices. This book advocates a variety of peer-administered testing mechanisms that have the potential to reverse damaging behaviours within the legal profession. It provides prototype techniques, questions and assessments that can be modified to suit different legal cultures. These will help the profession regain the initiative in ethical business practice, halt the decline in firms' reputations and reduce the risk of state-sponsored regulatory intervention.

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