Ethics and Professional Responsibility for Legal Assistants

by Cannon, Therese A.

• ISBN13: 9780735529045
• ISBN10: 0735529043
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Summary

The new edition of this comprehensive text continues to cover ethical principles from the perspective of the practicing paralegal. By emphasizing how the rules affect legal assistants, The author gives students a valuable preview of practice. the Fourth Edition retains the features that earned the book such widespread use: comprehensive coverage of all the major areas of legal ethics, including unauthorized practice of law, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, advertising and solicitation, fees an client funds, competence, special issues in advocacy, and professionalism effective pedagogy that reinforces the clear text consistent chapter structure, opening with an overview, introducing key terms in italics, using cases to demonstrate how the principles and rules are applied, and ending with review and discussion questions useful appendices provide the text of relevant ethical codes the expertise of Therese A. Cannon, a well-known and highly respected legal educator flexible text that is easily adaptable to courses of different lengths, and can be used in substantive courses for additional ethics coverage These important updates address: recent revisions to ethics rules, particularly the ABA Model Rules on which many of the 2002 state rules were based the new ethics advisory opinions and court cases affecting the regulation of paralegals Please visit the new companion website to learn more about this book. Website: http://www.aspenlawschool.com/cannon_ethics4

Table of Contents

Preface
Regulation of Lawyers	p. 1
Regulation of Paralegals and Ethics Guidelines for Paralegals	p. 15
Unauthorized Practice of Law	p. 45
Confidentiality	p. 101
Conflicts of Interest	p. 141
Advertising and Solicitation	p. 197
Fees and Client Funds	p. 235
Competence	p. 293
Special Issues in Advocacy	p. 325
Professionalism	p. 367
American Bar Association Model Guidelines for the Utilization of Legal Assistant Services	p. 385
National Association of Legal Assistants Model Standards and Guidelines for the Utilization of Legal Assistants	p. 399
National Association of Legal Assistants Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility	p. 411
National Federation of Paralegal Associations Model Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility	p. 415
Glossary	p. 421
Table of Cases	p. 427
Index	p. 431
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