adoption is the best interests of the child, the primacy in legal ethics of the interests of the client, who is rarely the … of Professional Conduct most applicable to adoption practice, as well as the lessons from behavioral ethics that inform … and dual representation, and the lawyer's role as counselor are particularly germane. Since legal ethics can be both …

of collaborative law has been provided by state and ABA ethics opinions. This article analyzes some of the issues raised … by these ethics opinions and regulations including competence, limited scope representation agreements, client …

legal ethics. All too often appellate cases and texts strip out the facts from cases. However, as any good lawyer will … when it comes to Canadian legal ethics. In Search of the Ethical Lawyer contains stories about important cases, issues and … people in Canadian legal ethics. It includes chapters by David Asper, Constance Backhouse, Janine Benedet, Brent Cotter …

discuss law firm ethics and the impact of formal controls and informal influences on lawyer conduct, the Institute for the … Study of Legal Ethics at Hofstra University and the Hofstra Law Review convened an April 5, 2013 Conference on the Ethical … Infrastructure and Ethics of Law Firms. This piece introduces each symposium article. It concludes by urging experts to take the …

Writing in 1999, legal ethics scholar Brad Wendel noted that "very little empirical work has been done on the moral … practice of health law" in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, the time to address the empirical gap in the professional … ethics literature is now. Accordingly, this article presents data collected from 120 health care lawyers. Presenting this …

international and “internal regulation” of ethics standards for international arbitration, including commercial, investor-state and …, legal systemic differences in rules, ethics and practices, third party funding of arbitrations, discovery and evidentiary … rules and conflicts and variations in treatment of these issues as a form of “comparative ethics” that must be “harmonized …