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Professional Responsibility Pitfalls: Often But Not Always Apparent, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Professional Responsibility Pitfalls: Often But Not Always Apparent, Jeffrey W. Stempel
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Bringing Counsel In From The Cold: Reconciling Ethical Rules With The Quagmire Of Insurance Defense Practice, Joseph Regalia, V. Andrew Cass
Bringing Counsel In From The Cold: Reconciling Ethical Rules With The Quagmire Of Insurance Defense Practice, Joseph Regalia, V. Andrew Cass
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Our case study is an ethical dilemma faced by insurance defense attorneys daily. An attorney is hired by Insurance Company A to defend an insured who is in a lawsuit over a car accident. Insurance Company A is one of the attorney's best clients, from whom he receives a steady stream of cases. Our attorney's investigation reveals good news-another driver not yet a party to the lawsuit may have contributed to the accident. This revelation has the potential to shift the blame, and all or part of the financial responsibility, onto the shoulders of the new potential party and his …
Big Law, Public Defender-Style: Aggregating Resources To Ensure Uniform Quality Of Representation, M. Eve Hanan
Big Law, Public Defender-Style: Aggregating Resources To Ensure Uniform Quality Of Representation, M. Eve Hanan
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Stories abound of public defenders who, overwhelmed with high caseloads, allow defendants to languish in pre-trial detention and guilty pleas to be entered without examining the merits of the case. Most defendants cannot afford to hire an attorney, and, thus, have no choice other than to accept the public counsel appointed by the court. In this Essay, I consider whether Professor Benjamin Edwards' central argument in The Professional Prospectus: A Call for Effective Professional Disclosure '-that attorneys should provide potential clients with a prospectus disclosing their performance history-applies to criminal defense. I reject the proposition that most people charged with …