Legal ethics, professional responsibility, and the legal profession / Gregory C. Sisk, Susan Saab Fortney, Charles Gardner Geyh, Neil W. Hamilton, William D. Henderson, Vincent R. Johnson, Katherine R. Kruse, Stephen L. Pepper, Melissa H. Weresh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The legal profession and legal services : nature and evolution. The structure of the legal profession ; The problem of lagging legal productivity ; The future of the legal profession -- The philosophy of legal ethics. Foundations of the lawyer's role ; Jurisprudence and the lawyer's role : looking to an understanding of law--rather than to morality--for the source of lawyers' ethical restraint ; Moral counsel and the gap between law and morality ; The corporation as client : amoral ethics squared ; Moral remainders -- Development toward professionalism and the formation of an ethical professional identity to become an effective lawyer. Professionalism and professional identity ; The importance of stress management in the formation of an ethical professional identity ; Professional identity formation and the law school curriculum -- Legal ethics and the practice of law. Sources of legal ethics and the law of lawyering ; Advertising for and solicitation of clients : information about legal services ; The attorney-client relationship : beginning to end ; Funding of legal services : fees, compensation, and fee shifting ; Duties to effectively represent the client ; Duties to protect confidentiality of client information ; Duties of loyalty : conflicts of interest and professional independence ; Duties to organization/entity clients ; Duties of ethical advocacy ; Duties as evaluator or third-party neutral ; Respect for other persons ; Duties of a lawyer in a law firm ; Public-regarding activities, duties, and rights -- Legal malpractice. Introduction to legal malpractice law ; Negligence ; Breach of fiduciary duty ; Liability to nonclients ; Remedies for legal malpractice ; Defenses and obstacles to recovery ; Vicarious liability ; Legal malpractice insurance -- Judicial ethics and the conduct of judges. Regulating judicial conduct generally : features and principles ; Regulating judicial conduct on the bench ; Regulating judicial conduct off the bench : extrajudicial and political activities

"As the legal profession undergoes structural changes, longstanding principles of ethics still govern the day-to-day lives of practicing lawyers. This new Hornbook on professional responsibility provides both a snapshot of ongoing systemic changes and a thorough examination of the fundamentals of lawyer and judicial ethics...[This] Hornbook (1) begins with the changing environment in which legal services are provided in the modern economy; (2) continues with a theoretical grounding of legal ethics in moral philosophy; (3) offers empirical evidence and discussion about professional formation and moral development; (4) provides a comprehensive analysis of the law of lawyer ethics; (5) includes a...discussion of the modern law of legal malpractice, and (6) concludes with exploration of the rules of judicial ethics."-- Provided by publisher.