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Everyone Deserves Defense, Peter Keane Oct 2008

Everyone Deserves Defense, Peter Keane

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In his decades as a public defender, Peter Keane represented murderers and other criminals as skillfully as he could – even when he knew they were guilty . Keane believes every one, no matter what they’ve done, deserves to have somebody on their side.


The Ethics Of Collaborative Law, Scott R. Peppet Jan 2008

The Ethics Of Collaborative Law, Scott R. Peppet

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The practice of Collaborative Law - in which both parties agree that should their case fail to settle, both lawyers will be disqualified from proceeding to court - has grown rapidly in the family bar over the last decade. At the same time, the ethics of this practice have been called into question. Competing ethics opinions in 2007 - from the Colorado Bar Association and the American Bar Association - alternately ban and permit the practice. This Article tries to clarify the underlying ethical issues in Collaborative Law, arguing that much confusion has resulted from imprecise understandings of what the …


The (New) Ethics Of Collaborative Law, Scott R. Peppet Jan 2008

The (New) Ethics Of Collaborative Law, Scott R. Peppet

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