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Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

2004

Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

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Lawyers In The Moral Maze , Mark A. Sargent Mar 2004

Lawyers In The Moral Maze , Mark A. Sargent

Working Paper Series

This article overviews the various forms of lawyer complicity in illegal or immoral behavior by corporate managers in the corporate scandals of the last three years, but focuses primarily on the question of why lawyers so often seemed willing to engage in or ignore behavior that presumably violated their own personal moral codes (whether religious or secular) as well as their professional role morality. The article draws on Robert Jackall's Moral Mazes (1988) for an answer derived from the sociology of corporate bureaucracies. Jackall's case studies of corporate managers found that managers adhered to the moral "rules-in-use" developed in their …

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Recent Case: Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Holds That A Lawyer May Be Liable For Malpractice For Failure To Ensure That A Mortgage Is Properly Filed And Indexed, Anthony Faranda-Diedrich Jan 2004

Recent Case: Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Holds That A Lawyer May Be Liable For Malpractice For Failure To Ensure That A Mortgage Is Properly Filed And Indexed, Anthony Faranda-Diedrich

Villanova Law Review

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Sarbanes-Oxley 307: Trusted Counselors Or Informers, M. Peter Moser, Stanley Keller Jan 2004

Sarbanes-Oxley 307: Trusted Counselors Or Informers, M. Peter Moser, Stanley Keller

Villanova Law Review

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Legal And Ethical Duties Of Lawyers After Sarbanes-Oxley, Roger C. Cramton, George M. Cohen, Susan P. Koniak Jan 2004

Legal And Ethical Duties Of Lawyers After Sarbanes-Oxley, Roger C. Cramton, George M. Cohen, Susan P. Koniak

Villanova Law Review

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Lawyers In The Moral Maze, Mark A. Sargent Jan 2004

Lawyers In The Moral Maze, Mark A. Sargent

Villanova Law Review

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Sec Enforcement Of Attorney Up-The-Ladder Reporting Rules: An Analysis Of Institutional Constraints, Norms And Biases, Michael A. Perino Jan 2004

Sec Enforcement Of Attorney Up-The-Ladder Reporting Rules: An Analysis Of Institutional Constraints, Norms And Biases, Michael A. Perino

Villanova Law Review

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