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The good lawyer / Adrian Evans.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia : Cambridge University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: xv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1107423430
  • 9781107423435
  • 1316057976
  • 9781316057971
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.3 23
LOC classification:
  • KU444 .E935 2014
Contents:
1. Good legal education. -- 2. The law practice landscape: choosing to be a 'good' lawyer in a good law firm. -- 3. Values, ethics and virtue in lawyering. -- 4. Connecting character to lawyers' roles. -- 5. Truth and deception. -- 6. Professional secrets. -- 7. Conflects of loyalty and interest. -- 8. The morality of competence. -- 9. Practical wisdom for lawyers. -- Appendix A: Self-assessment of legal ethical preferences. -- Appendix B: Safety nets for lawyers.
Summary: "Explores the ethical and professional challenges that confront people who work in the law -- or are considering it -- and offers principled and pragmatic advice about how to overcome such challenges ... [and shows] how to develop personal judgement when you may be pulled one way by rules, another way by decided cases and yet another way by conventional 'role morality.'"--Provided by publisher.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 174.3 EVA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A526468B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 174.3 EVA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A526499B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Good legal education. -- 2. The law practice landscape: choosing to be a 'good' lawyer in a good law firm. -- 3. Values, ethics and virtue in lawyering. -- 4. Connecting character to lawyers' roles. -- 5. Truth and deception. -- 6. Professional secrets. -- 7. Conflects of loyalty and interest. -- 8. The morality of competence. -- 9. Practical wisdom for lawyers. -- Appendix A: Self-assessment of legal ethical preferences. -- Appendix B: Safety nets for lawyers.

"Explores the ethical and professional challenges that confront people who work in the law -- or are considering it -- and offers principled and pragmatic advice about how to overcome such challenges ... [and shows] how to develop personal judgement when you may be pulled one way by rules, another way by decided cases and yet another way by conventional 'role morality.'"--Provided by publisher.

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