Legal ethics and professional conduct

Unhappy clients bring thousands of legal malpractice claims every year, against mega law firms and solo practitioners, for simple errors or egregious misconduct, and for losses than can reach $100 million or more.

Endorsed by the Chartered Banker Institute as core reading for its professional qualifications, Culture, Conduct and Ethics in Banking emphasizes the importance of professionalism for banks, and explores how all staff play a key role in putting customers at the heart of their business.

Unhappy clients bring thousands of legal malpractice claims every year, against mega law firms and solo practitioners, for simple errors or egregious misconduct, and for losses than can reach $100 million or more.

This book argues that lawyers'' individual ethics can be assessed and measured in realistic frameworks.

Can harsh interrogation techniques and torture ever be morally justified for a nation at war or under the threat of imminent attack?

This book asks whether officials can be moral and still follow the law, answering that the law requires them to do so.

This book examines the patriarchal nature of fundamental Christianity and offers a critique of the new natural lawyers'' school of thought.

The legal status of posthumous interests is analysed in three areas of medico-legal context.

This book shows students the main ethical questions that confront the criminal justice system, illustrated by a range of case studies.

A wide-ranging collection of essays from a leading scholar of legal ethics.

This 2006 book establishes ethical guidelines for legal conduct in child custody and dependency proceedings.

This book assesses the role of court experts, court clerks and court staff, and other actors on the 'judicial periphery' who play an important role and often co-determine the pace, outcome, and tone of the judicial process.

We are obsessed with watching television shows and feature films about lawyers, reading legal thrillers, and following real-life trials.

A Modern Legal Ethics proposes a wholesale renovation of legal ethics, one that contributes to ethical thought generally.

Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting?

Information and how we manage, process and govern it is becoming increasingly important as organizations ride the wave of the big data revolution.

'An amazing portrait of how grifters came to be called visionaries and high finance lost its mind.

Following a deadly car crash, small-town lawyer Lance Cooper risked everything to battle one of the most powerful auto corporations in the world to get justice for a young woman.

In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know(R) series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement.

Political and social commentators regularly bemoan the decline of morality in the modern world.

Political and social commentators regularly bemoan the decline of morality in the modern world.

Public Health Law and Ethics defines these fields for a new generation.

What can law firms do to ensure justice for all?

The act of interrogation, and the debate over its use, pervades our culture, whether through fictionalized depictions in movies and television or discussions of real-life interrogations on the news.

The Great Recession intensified large law firms' emphasis on financial performance, leading to claims that lawyers in these firms were now guided by business rather than professional values.

What is it to be morally responsible for something?

We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt.

The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization.

Normative Subjects alludes to the fields of morality and law, as well as to the entities, self and collectivity, addressed by these clusters of norms.

Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings.

Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings.

Lawyer misconduct affects many people: clients, adversaries, opposing counsel, judges, the legal profession, and society at large.

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing?

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing?

In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know(R) series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement.

In Outrageous Invasions: Celebrities' Private Lives, Media, and the Law, Professor Robin D.

This book answers two basic but under-appreciated questions: first, how does the American criminal justice system address a defendant's family status?

Creon's Ghost examines the enduring problem of the relationship between man's law and a "e;higher"e; law from the perspective of core humanities texts and through discussion of hotly debated contemporary legal conundrums.

Forty years ago, managerialism dominated corporate governance.

This book discusses the particular conditions necessary for the state to legally interfere with our freedom of choice, whether it be to either satisfy our individual pursuit of happiness (paternalism) or to prevent us from making immoral choices (perfectionism).

Law, Economics, and Morality examines the possibility of combining economic methodology and deontological morality through explicit and direct incorporation of moral constraints into economic models.

For more than a decade, American lawyers have bewailed the ethical crisis in their profession, wringing their hands about its bad image.

The power and influence of the federal judiciary has been widely discussed and understood.

Getting the Government America Deserves analyzes government ethics law from the perspective of an academic critic and that of a lawyer who was the chief White House ethics lawyer for two and a half years.

Permit But Discourage: Regulating Excessive Consumption, by W.

Throughout history, the American legal profession has tried to hold tight to its identity by retreating into its traditional values and structure during times of self-perceived crisis.

Kai Draper begins his book with the assumption that individual rights exist and stand as moral obstacles to the pursuit of national no less than personal interests.

In the last fifteen years, there has been significant interest in studying the brain structures involved in moral judgments using novel techniques from neuroscience such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Throughout history, the American legal profession has tried to hold tight to its identity by retreating into its traditional values and structure during times of self-perceived crisis.

The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization.