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Legal ethics

1999

Notre Dame Law School

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Specificity In Professional Responsibility Codes: Theory, Practice, And The Paradigm Of Prosecutorial Ethics, Fred C. Zacharias Jun 1999

Specificity In Professional Responsibility Codes: Theory, Practice, And The Paradigm Of Prosecutorial Ethics, Fred C. Zacharias

Notre Dame Law Review

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Preventing Misconduct By Promoting The Ethics Of Attorneys' Supervisory Duties, Irwin D. Miller Jun 1999

Preventing Misconduct By Promoting The Ethics Of Attorneys' Supervisory Duties, Irwin D. Miller

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.


On Lying For Clients, Thomas L. Shaffer Jun 1999

On Lying For Clients, Thomas L. Shaffer

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.


Conflicts Problems When Representing Members Of Corporate Families, Ronald D. Rotunda Jun 1999

Conflicts Problems When Representing Members Of Corporate Families, Ronald D. Rotunda

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.


Realism, Responsibility, And The Good Lawyer: Niebuhrian Perspectives On Legal Ethics, Timothy W. Floyd Jun 1999

Realism, Responsibility, And The Good Lawyer: Niebuhrian Perspectives On Legal Ethics, Timothy W. Floyd

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.


Ethics Of Procedure A Discovery-Based Approach To Ex Parte Contacts With Former Employees Of A Corporate Adversary, John E. Iole, John D. Goetz Jun 1999

Ethics Of Procedure A Discovery-Based Approach To Ex Parte Contacts With Former Employees Of A Corporate Adversary, John E. Iole, John D. Goetz

Notre Dame Law Review

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Towering Figures, Enigmas, And Responsive Communities In American Legal Ethics, Thomas L. Shaffer Jan 1999

Towering Figures, Enigmas, And Responsive Communities In American Legal Ethics, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

The first thing Niebuhr and Guttman are telling us to do is to look around and figure out what is going on around us. With that in mind, it has seemed to me that, at the simplest, a lawyer (or a journalist) functions in at least four communities, any one of which might be a community to talk about lawyers' moral questions in.

My inquiry, then, is an inquiry in communitarian legal ethics, using a Guttman-Niebuhr focus on responsibility. I infer a further question about communities of moral discernment—that is, not only where a modern lawyer is responsible but also …


What Is The Common Good, And Why Does It Concern The Client's Lawyer?, John M. Finnis Jan 1999

What Is The Common Good, And Why Does It Concern The Client's Lawyer?, John M. Finnis

Journal Articles

Why is anything of real concern to any of us? Because, besides our simply emotional motives, we have reasons for action (which may be supported or opposed by our emotions). What are reasons for action? Some are instrumental, means to further ends: I have reason to start reading this paper to you, and you had reason to come back into the room to hear it. What reasons? Well, doing so is my contribution to this symposium's reflection on its subject-matter. That reflection, in turn, is intended to be instrumental in promoting a wider and deeper understanding of an important set …