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Lawyer misconduct affects many people: clients, adversaries, opposing counsel, judges, the legal profession, and society at large. The records of disciplinary proceedings offer a penetrating, and largely ignored, perspective on how lawyers misbehave. Because the lawyers' professional lives are at stake, the factual records are extraordinarily detailed and the lawyers surprisingly open about their motivations and justifications. In Lawyers on Trial, Richard L. Abel presents the stories of ten California lawyers who broke the rules: hiring an ex-cop to chase ambulances, flouting fee limitations in medical malpractice cases, creating a fictitious company and impersonating non-existent people in order to appropriate Sega's computer games, a former California Real Estate Commissioner defrauding developers and financiers, helping a represented co-defendant negotiate a plea without his lawyer's participation or knowledge, and defying a judge's sealing order and his own client's wishes for closure in order to champion the

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Book category Books in English Law Jurisprudence & general issues Legal profession: general

• Full title: Lawyers on Trial
• Subtitle: Understanding Ethical Misconduct
• Author: Richard L. Abel
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 516
• EAN: 9780199760374
• ISBN: 0199760373
• ID: 04535725
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 864 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 163 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. December 2010

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