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Commentary on a recent California decision sanctioning an attorney for charging fees in advance for loan modification services and criticism of the requirement in light of its deterrent effect on lawyer's willingness to undertake such services for low income borrowers
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This paper discusses the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct as applicable to business, transactional, real estate, and title lawyers in Colorado. This paper also discusses comparable rules of professional conduct and interpretations from a number of other states and the ABA's Model Rules of...
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Whether as a matter of duty, ethics, or utility, lawyers give reasons for their actions all the time. In the various … presence in law and legal institutions. The Essay includes a brief discussion of the intersection of reason-giving and ethics …
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Furthering an integrative ethics-as-practice framework, this paper explores the professional practices, self …-understanding and ethics of lawyers working in the Germanic legal context. Existing studies of the legal profession often argue that … ethics are complex and contingent. Focusing on the ‘moral rules in use’ and how lawyers negotiate ethical matters ‘from …
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Recent appellate cases upholding sanctions against lawyers for, in one case, improperly going into business with the client, and, in the other, joining forces with the client's adversaries after terminating the representation
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In his article, The Corporate/Securities Attorney as a Moving Target - Client Fraud Dilemmas, Marc Steinberg does an outstanding job of identifying the complex and significant ethical issues currently confronting securities lawyers. In this article, I attempt to explore the important legal and...
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Each presidential administration faces its own challenges related to the ethics of government officials and lawyers … educators should do more to empower government lawyers to deal with such ethics issues. To highlight key ethics questions … government lawyers must address, the author examines some of the most common and perplexing ethics issues that arise in …
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