Regulating the profession -- Loyalty to present clients : concurrent conflicts of interest -- Loyalty to past clients : successive and imputed conflicts of interest -- Confidentiality -- Truthfulness -- Difficult clients and communications : responsibility for corporations, the government, the incompetent and the trusting -- Starting a law practice -- Bar admissions -- Bar discipline and malpractice
The tragedy of Ezra Thayer, 1900-1915 -- The centennial fundraising fiasco, 1914-1920 -- The perilous trials of Roscoe Pound and the faculty, 1916-1927 -- "Desirable" and undesirable students, 1916-1936 -- "The school must live from hand to mouth," 1919-1930s -- Legal realism and Pound's decline, 1928-1931 -- New Deal, Nazis, and faculty revolt, 1931-1936 -- The "meteoric" rise and fall of James Landis, 1937-1946 -- Harvard, Columbia, and the "major professional schools," 1890-1945 -- Griswold brings order to the "madhouse," 1946-1950s -- McCarthyism and the Fifth Amendment, 1950s -- The admissions revolution, 1946-1967 -- "The school has not grown soft," 1946-1967 -- "A vast expansion" in spending, 1946-1967 -- The Harvard-Yale Game, 1900-1970 -- Derek Bok's tumultuous interlude, 1968-1970 -- "An especially difficult period": Albert Sacks, 1971-1981 -- Academics and students, 1970s and 1980s -- Faculty discord, 1970s and 1980s.