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Inside Lawyers’ Ethics
Legal ethics is often described as an oxymoron – lay people find the concept
amusing and lawyers can find ethics impossible. But the best lawyers are those
who e to grips with their own values and actively seek to improve
their ethics in practice. Inside Lawyers’ Ethics is designed to help law students
and new lawyers to understand and modify their own ethical priorities, not just
because this knowledge makes it easier to practise law and earn an e, but
also because self-aware, ethical legal practice is right, feels better and enhances
justice. Packed with case studies of ethical scandals and dilemmas from real-
life legal practice in Australia, each chapter delves into the most difficult issues
lawyers face. From lawyers’ part in corporate fraud to the ethics of time-based
billing, the authors expose the values that underlie current practice and set out
the alternatives ethical lawyers can follow.
This book is pact, usable resource for all students, teachers and practi-
tioners in the disciplines of law and ethics.
Christine Parker is Associate Professor and Reader in the Faculty of Law at the
University of Melbourne. She is also an Australian Research Council Fellow.
Adrian Evans is Associate Professor and Convenor of Legal Practice Programs
in the Faculty of Law at Monash University. He is also a recipient of the Monash
Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Inside Lawyers’ Ethics
Christine Parker
and
Adrian Evans
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Cambridge University Press
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Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York
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© Christine Parker, Adrian Evans 2006
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