Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781590318737

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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

The Collected ABA and TriBar Opinion Reports
The Collected ABA and TriBar Opinion Reports

Author:

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781590315682

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For the first time, the TriBar Opinion Committee and ABA Committee on Legal Opinions reports (1994-2004) are now available in a single, convenient, portable volume. These influential reports simplify and clarify the score and content of legal opinions in third-party transactions.

Standards for Programs Providing Civil Pro Bono Legal Services to Persons of Limited Means
Standards for Programs Providing Civil Pro Bono Legal Services to Persons of Limited Means

Author: American Bar Association. Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781627225397

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"In 2011, the Committee launched the current effort to update the Pro Bono Standards. The Committee formed a Working Group made up of pro bono stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, and retained a consultant to coordinate the process. The Working Group reviewed each of the Pro Bono Standards (including Commentary) to identify areas in need of updating and revision and drafted suggested amendments, additions and deletions. In doing so, the group identified challenging or difficult issues that particularly bore more discussion"--Foreword.

Well-Being in the Legal Profession
Well-Being in the Legal Profession

Author: Randall Kiser

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-04

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 104020385X

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This book provides a critical psychosocial analysis of legal practice, documenting a mental health crisis among lawyers and judges and linking this crisis to a dysfunctional legal system they continue to control. Tracing studies of lawyers and judges over 40 years, this book demonstrates that decades of mental distress and social detachment in the legal profession have seriously damaged the legal system. Focusing largely on conditions in the United States but also drawing on studies from the UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia, the book depicts how this system is jeopardized by lawyers’ egocentrism, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse. To improve the legal system and lawyers’ mental health—integrating law, psychology, sociology, and policy making—the book advocates a renewed commitment to justice, compassion, respect, and fairness through an ethic of regenerative altruism. This book will appeal to legal academics concerned with the sociology of legal practice, as well as those involved in training lawyers; it will also be of interest to practicing lawyers, judges, and others engaged by issues of social justice and legal reform.

A Breath of Hope
A Breath of Hope

Author: Jo S. Kittinger

Publisher:

Published: 2012-07-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781614384489

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The book depicts how medical-legal partnerships and legal aid can transform the lives of families in need. The text focuses on the plight of a small girl suffering with asthma because of a landlord's neglect of an apartment contaminated with mold. Torn between being evicted and the heath of their daughter, the family is connected to a legal representative by the doctor who cares for the child.

Access to Justice
Access to Justice

Author: Rebecca L. Sanderfur

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2009-03-23

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1848552432

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Around the world, access to justice enjoys an energetic and passionate resurgence as an object both of scholarly inquiry and political contest, as both a social movement and a value commitment motivating study and action. This work evidences a deeper engagement with social theory than past generations of scholarship.