Suchergebnisse

Do lawyers have First Amendment rights? -- Speech is all we have -- Self-regulation : myth and reality -- Attorneys as officers of the court and delegates of state power -- Core ideals of the First Amendment -- Cognate inseparable rights -- The access to justice theory -- Freedom to form an attorney-client relationship -- Safeguarding client counseling and confidences -- Invoking law and processes to protect client interests -- Safeguarding and impugning judicial integrity -- Securing criminal constitutional processes -- Uncompromised pretrial publicity -- Attorney civility, harassment, and discrimination

The role and responsibility of lawyers -- The regulation of the legal profession -- The attorney-client relationship -- Competence - the lawyer's indispensable duty -- Confidentiality, the attorney-client privilege, and work-product immunity -- Conflicts of interest -- Fairness in adjudication -- Special ethical issues in criminal practice -- Practicing law : issues in group lawyering and the unauthorized practice of law -- Marketing legal services -- Access to justice and pro bono services -- Judicial ethics.