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Regulating The Behavior Of Lawyers In Mass Individual Representations: A Call For Reform., Richard Zitrin Jan 2013

Regulating The Behavior Of Lawyers In Mass Individual Representations: A Call For Reform., Richard Zitrin

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

Cases in which lawyers represent large numbers of individual plaintiffs are increasingly common. While these cases have some of the indicia of class actions, they are not class actions, usually because there are no common damages, but rather individual representations on a mass scale. Current ethics rules do not provide adequate guidance for even the most ethical lawyers. The absence of sufficiently flexible, practical ethical rules has become an open invitation for less-ethical attorneys to abuse, often severely, the mass-representation problem. It is necessary to reform the current rules, but only with a solution that is both practical and attainable, …


Coaching Witnesses, Fred C. Zacharias, Shaun Martin Jan 1999

Coaching Witnesses, Fred C. Zacharias, Shaun Martin

Kentucky Law Journal

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Cross-Examining Legal Ethics: The Roles Of Intentions, Outcomes, And Character, R. George Wright Jan 1995

Cross-Examining Legal Ethics: The Roles Of Intentions, Outcomes, And Character, R. George Wright

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.