Assessing lawyers' ethics : a practitioners' guide / Adrian Evans.
2011
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Author
Title
Assessing lawyers' ethics : a practitioners' guide / Adrian Evans.
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Call Number
KU444 .E93 2011
ISBN
9780521764223 (pbk.)
052176422X (pbk.)
052176422X (pbk.)
Description
xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)702167204
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Silver Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Silver Fund
Table of Contents
Preface
ix
List of figures
xi
Acknowledgements
xii
1.
An opportunity for law societies
1
1.1.
Professionalism versus commercialism: An opportunity for law societies
1
1.2.
Standing aside from self-interest
6
1.3.
Ethics at the centre of professionalism
10
1.4.
Younger lawyers' disconnection: Older lawyers' denial
14
1.5.
Ethics assessments as `central value propositions'
16
1.6.
Preventing public intervention
18
2.
Ethical failures, research and core qualities
20
2.1.
Education without assessment is wasted effort
20
2.2.
Representative Australian cases of ethical dysfunction
21
2.3.
North American experience: Over-zealous and over-dependent
29
2.4.
Conflicting loyalties inside large UK and US firms
34
2.5.
Research into lawyers' ethics
38
2.6.
Core qualities of professional activity
48
3.
Understanding ethical methods and types
62
3.1.
Awareness of ethical issues
62
3.2.
Ethical approaches or methods
64
3.3.
Lawyers' ethical types
72
3.4.
Strengths and weaknesses of the dominant approach to legal ethics
75
3.5.
Ethical complexity
81
3.6.
Ethical complexity and moral courage: The requirement to judge
87
3.7.
From virtue to courage
91
4.
Mechanisms to offset business pressure on legal ethics
92
4.1.
Virtuous lawyers as acute businessmen and women
92
4.2.
Information barriers as paradigms of ethics versus business
93
4.3.
The apparent conflict between law as a profession or as a business
95
4.4.
Connecting personal values to ethical consciousness
98
4.5.
Testing lawyers' competence, and indirectly their ethics
101
4.6.
Institutional structures in support of individuals' ethics: Regulation of incorporated legal practices
115
4.7.
The credibility of legal risk management
116
4.8.
Post-admission training in competence and ethics: Not making enough progress
119
4.9.
The need for practitioner opinion
124
5.
Discovering practitioners' opinions about ethics assessment and psychological testing for integrity
126
5.1.
Why consider practitioners' views?
126
5.2.
Quantitative ranking of legal professionalism (ethics) issues
128
5.3.
Practitioners' concerns for professionalism
131
5.4.
Conclusion to concerns for professionalism
135
5.5.
The climate for psychological testing for honesty and integrity
136
5.6.
Significance of studies of lawyer attributes and personality
138
5.7.
Assessing psychological health
142
5.8.
Unravelling honesty and dishonesty
147
5.9.
Assessing trustworthiness and integrity
150
5.10.
Psychological testing for integrity
152
5.11.
Recommendations: Assessing psychological preparedness for legal practice
159
5.12.
Possible questions for practitioners about trust and integrity issues
160
6.
Developing character: Disciplinary histories and clients' assessments
163
6.1.
The relevance of the past
163
6.2.
Disclosable prior offences in Victoria
165
6.3.
Can clients fairly assess their lawyers' ethics?
172
6.4.
Prior large-scale surveys of clients
173
6.5.
Client satisfaction as an indicator of `quality'
173
6.6.
Client rating of interpersonal skills and accountability
176
6.7.
Client file audits
180
6.8.
Opinions of corporate clients
184
6.9.
Usefulness of file audits
185
6.10.
Recommendations: Developing character through disciplinary histories and client opinion
185
7.
Measuring awareness of values and ethics
188
7.1.
Towards assessment of lawyers' ethics
188
7.2.
Being aware of (personal) values and emotions
191
7.3.
Research assessments of ethics and `complex judgment'
195
7.4.
The Melbourne Study: Lawyers' awareness of values and ethics
203
7.5.
Awareness promotes intentionality
207
7.6.
Measuring a lawyer's preference for an ethical type
209
7.7.
Summary methodology for scale development
212
7.8.
Implications for a comprehensive scale for assessing lawyers' ethics
213
7.9.
Assessing ethics through peer interview
214
7.10.
Template example of a peer interview assessing lawyers' ethics
218
7.11.
Accumulating assessment ratings to produce a composite rating or index
220
7.12.
Consequences of an inadequate assessment rating
221
7.13.
Recommendations: Achieving and sustaining lawyers' ethics
223
8.
Entrenching ethics assessment
225
8.1.
Improvements, not solutions
225
8.2.
The Melbourne Study and CPD
228
8.3.
Evidence for the effect of CLE
230
8.4.
Continuing opportunities for law societies
231
8.5.
The cost benefits of ethics assessment
234
8.6.
Overall recommendations
236
Appendix A
Research Methods: The Melbourne Study
240
Appendix B
Awareness of ethical type: Detailed methodology for scale development
250
Appendix C
Prototype scale of preference for legal ethical type
254
Index
257