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BUY FROM PUBLISHER Available as an ebook at: Amazon Kindle Apple iBooks Barnes & Noble Nook CafeScribe Chegg Inc Google Play Kno	Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in Context edited by Leslie C. Levin and Lynn Mather University of Chicago Press, 2012 eISBN: 978-0-226-47517-2 \| Paper: 978-0-226-47516-5 \| Cloth: 978-0-226-47515-8 Library of Congress Classification K123.L395 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 174.3 ABOUT THIS BOOK \| AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY \| REVIEWS \| TOC \| REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE ABOUT THIS BOOK How do lawyers resolve ethical dilemmas in the everyday context of their practice? What are the issues that commonly arise, and how do lawyers determine the best ways to resolve them? Until recently, efforts to answer these questions have focused primarily on rules and legal doctrine rather than the real-life situations lawyers face in legal practice. The first book to present empirical research on ethical decision making in a variety of practice contexts, including corporate litigation, securities, immigration, and divorce law, Lawyers in Practice fills a substantial gap in the existing literature. Following an introduction emphasizing the increasing importance of understanding context in the legal profession, contributions focus on ethical dilemmas ranging from relatively narrow ethical issues to broader problems of professionalism, including the prosecutor’s obligation to disclose evidence, the management of conflicts of interest, and loyalty to clients and the court. Each chapter details the resolution of a dilemma from the practitioner’s point of view that is, in turn, set within a particular community of practice. Timely and practical, this book should be required reading for law students as well as students and scholars of law and society. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Leslie C. Levin is professor of law at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Lynn Mather is professor of law and political science at the University at Buffalo Law School, State University of New York. She is coeditor of the Chicago Series in Law and Society and coauthor of several books, including Private Lawyers and the Public Interest. REVIEWS “With Lawyers in Practice, Leslie C. Levin and Lynn Mather break new ground. This is the first book to locate the ethical and unethical behavior of lawyers in details of their many varied practice contexts; the contributors make a convincing case that we can only understand lawyers’ behavior contextually. Very thorough, illuminating, and persuasive.” — Richard Abel, UCLA School of Law “This outstanding collection of essays on the actualities of legal practice in a variety of contexts is an important complement—and in many ways a corrective—to the perception of the bar as sufficiently undifferentiated to make a single “Code of Responsibility” a truly sensible enterprise. I think this will be of great interest to any scholar in the field precisely because it fleshes out, with vivid concrete examples and interviews, the implications of the fact that the bar is highly fragmented.” — Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School “This very interesting edited volume is one of the first books to examine lawyers’ ethical decision making in a variety of practice settings and through empirical research. I know of very few collections that examine so many different types of lawyer practice. This volume will become a very important contribution to the literature in this field of study.” — Law and Politics Book Review "An ambitious and important book that seeks to move the study of lawyers' ethics from the realm of theory to an appreciation of the empirical world of decision making. Highly recommended." — Choice "Lawyers in Practice is an excellent and important addition to the existing resources on the ethical conduct of lawyers. It offers nuanced and textured analyses of lawyers' decisionmaking with regard to issues of ethics and professional identity, using the lens of the contexts in which lawyers practice to frame the discussion. The work is supported by both qualitative and quantitative empirical research that provides richly detailed and convincing backdrops for examining ethical conduct." — Kathleen E. Hull, Law and Society Review TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Contributors Part I. Introductory Perspectives on Ethics in Context Chapter 1 Why Context Matters Lynn Mather and Leslie C. Levin Chapter 2 Some Realism about Legal Realism for Lawyers: Assessing the Role of Context in Legal Ethics David B. Wilkins Chapter 3 Whose Ethics? The Benchmark Problem in Legal Ethics Research Elizabeth Chambliss Part II. Decision Making in Communities of Legal Practice Family and Immigration Chapter 4 Client Grievances and Lawyer Conduct: The Challenges of Divorce Practice Lynn Mather and Craig A. McEwen Chapter 5 Immigration Lawyers and the Lying Client Leslie C. Levin Personal Injury Chapter 6 Plaintiffs’ Lawyers and the Tension between Professional Norms and the Need to Generate Business Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin Chapter 7 Betwixt and Between: The Ethical Dilemmas of Insurance Defense Herbert M. Kritzer Corporate Settings Chapter 8 The Ethics of Constructing Truth: The Corporate Litigator’s Approach Kimberly Kirkland Chapter 9 Transnational Lawyering: Clients, Ethics, and Regulation John Flood Chapter 10 The Ethics of In-House Practice Sung Hui Kim Corporate Specialties Chapter 11 The Ethical Lives of Securities Lawyers Patrick Schmidt Chapter 12 Scientists at the Bar: The Professional World of Patent Lawyers John M. Conley and Lynn Mather Criminal Law Chapter 13 Prosecutors’ Ethics in Context: Influences on Prosecutorial Disclosure Ellen Yaroshefsky and Bruce A. Green Chapter 14 Reinterpreting the Zealous Advocate: Multiple Intermediary Roles of the Criminal Defense Attorney Nicole Martorano Van Cleve Public Interest Lawyers Chapter 15 Legal Services Lawyers: When Conceptions of Lawyering and Values Clash Corey S. Shdaimah Chapter 16 The Accountability Problem in Public Interest Practice: Old Paradigms and New Directions Scott L. Cummings Epilogue Index REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE If you are a student who has a disability that prevents you from using this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you with an electronic file for alternative access. Please have the disability coordinator at your school fill out this form. It can take 2-3 weeks for requests to be filled. See other books on: Decision making \| Ethics & Professional Responsibility \| Lawyers \| Legal ethics \| Practice See other titles from University of Chicago Press

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REVIEWS

“With Lawyers in Practice, Leslie C. Levin and Lynn Mather break new ground. This is the first book to locate the ethical and unethical behavior of lawyers in details of their many varied practice contexts; the contributors make a convincing case that we can only understand lawyers’ behavior contextually. Very thorough, illuminating, and persuasive.”

— Richard Abel, UCLA School of Law

“This outstanding collection of essays on the actualities of legal practice in a variety of contexts is an important complement—and in many ways a corrective—to the perception of the bar as sufficiently undifferentiated to make a single “Code of Responsibility” a truly sensible enterprise. I think this will be of great interest to any scholar in the field precisely because it fleshes out, with vivid concrete examples and interviews, the implications of the fact that the bar is highly fragmented.”

— Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School

“This very interesting edited volume is one of the first books to examine lawyers’ ethical decision making in a variety of practice settings and through empirical research. I know of very few collections that examine so many different types of lawyer practice. This volume will become a very important contribution to the literature in this field of study.”

— Law and Politics Book Review

"An ambitious and important book that seeks to move the study of lawyers' ethics from the realm of theory to an appreciation of the empirical world of decision making. Highly recommended."

— Choice

"Lawyers in Practice is an excellent and important addition to the existing resources on the ethical conduct of lawyers. It offers nuanced and textured analyses of lawyers' decisionmaking with regard to issues of ethics and professional identity, using the lens of the contexts in which lawyers practice to frame the discussion. The work is supported by both qualitative and quantitative empirical research that provides richly detailed and convincing backdrops for examining ethical conduct."

— Kathleen E. Hull, Law and Society Review