Legal Ethics / / Henry S. Drinker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Drinker, Henry S.,
• MitwirkendeR: Davis, John W.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1953]; ©1953
• Year of Publication: 1953
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (450 p.)

Applies the principles of legal ethics to contemporary conditions, embodies those dealing with new developments such as advertising, matrimonial litigation, fee splitting, etc. and summarizes the principles established by the many written decisions that have been rendered from the 1920s to the 1950s by the ethics committees of the different bar associations construing the Canons.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- NOBLESSE OBLIGE -- Part One. ORGANIZATION OF THE BAR AND OF DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS -- I. HISTORY OF THE BAR IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES -- II. SANCTIONS OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT -- III. DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS -- Part Two. THE DUTIES AND OBLIGATIONS OF LAWYERS -- IV. THE LAWYER'S OBLIGATIONS TO THE PUBLIC BY REASON OF THE SPECIAL PRIVILEGES ACCORDED HIM -- V. THE LAWYER'S OBLIGATION TO THE COURTS -- VI. THE LAWYER'S OBLIGATIONS TO HIS CLIENT -- VII. THE LAWYER'S OBLIGATIONS AND RELATIONS TO OTHER LAWYERS -- VIII. ADVERTISING AND SOLICITATION -- IX. THE CANONS OF JUDICIAL ETHICS -- APPENDIX A. DECISIONS BY THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION ETHICS COMMITTEE HITHERTO UNREPORTED -- APPENDIX B. DIGEST OF REPRESENTATIVE COURT DECISIONS SPECIFYING GROUNDS FOR DISBARMENT, SUSPENSION, OR CENSURE -- APPENDIX C. CANONS OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS -- APPENDIX D. CANONS OF JUDICIAL ETHICS -- APPENDIX E.HOFFMAN'S FIFTY RESOLUTIONS IN REGARD TO PROFESSIONAL DEPORTMENT1 -- APPENDIX F. CODE OF ETHICS1 ALABAMA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION -- APPENDIX G. RULES AND STANDARDS AS TO LAW LISTS -- INDEX OF WORKS CITED -- TABLE OF CASES -- TABLE OF COMMITTEE DECISIONS -- INDEX