Ethics
Legal Ethics: The Plaintiffs' Lawyer - Nora Freeman Engstrom
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Legal Ethics The Plaintiffs' Lawyer ISBN 9798892090551
This casebook approaches legal ethics through the lens of plaintiffs’ practice, offering a nuanced examination of the professional, financial, and procedural realities faced by personal injury and mass tort lawyers. It explores who plaintiffs’ lawyers are, how they attract and retain clients, how they finance litigation, and how they navigate complex cases to resolution.
Topics covered include: the role and regulation of attorneys; the legal and ethical implications of solicitation, advertising, and referrals; the use of confidentiality in a legal system that values transparency; the challenges of public-private litigation partnerships; and the thorny issues arising in class actions, aggregate litigation, and multi-district litigation (MDLs).
Drawing on a rich mix of sources—including judicial opinions, pleadings, ethics rulings, investigative journalism, and scholarly commentary—alongside explanatory notes, questions, and problems, the book offers an accessible and highly contextualized exploration of professional responsibility in litigation practice.
Students are encouraged to integrate doctrine and ethics through a series of in-depth case studies involving major litigation events such as the opioid lawsuits, the GM ignition switch scandal, the Vioxx litigation, and Chevron’s environmental litigation in Ecuador.
While the casebook centers on the figure of the plaintiffs’ lawyer, its practical and grounded content prepares students to think critically and act ethically across all areas of litigation—on either side of the “v.”
Engstrom Legal Ethics The Plaintiffs' Lawyer ISBN 979-8892090551 & 9798892096027
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- ISBN
- 9798892090551
- Publisher
- West Academic
- Publication Date
- June 2025
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