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John Sahl

2011

Professional Responsibility

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Behind Closed Doors: Shedding Light On Lawyer Self-Regulation--What Lawyers Do When Nobody's Watching, John Sahl Jan 2011

Behind Closed Doors: Shedding Light On Lawyer Self-Regulation--What Lawyers Do When Nobody's Watching, John Sahl

John Sahl

This Article examines the significance of Professor Fred C. Zacharias’s work, What Lawyers Do When Nobody’s Watching: Legal Advertising as a Case Study of the Impact of Underenforced Professional Rules. Following the Introduction, Part II of the Article summarizes Nobody’s Watching – an empirically based study of lawyers in California who advertised in the yellow pages of telephone books. Part II reviews Professor Zacharias’ findings and analysis concerning unenforced or underenforced ethics rules regulating lawyer advertising. Part III discusses the significance of Nobody’s Watching as an early empirical study of lawyer advertising in the field of professional responsibility and its …