Legal Ethics employs a variety of techniques to breathe life into a topic that can be sometimes tedious to study. Readers will be attracted to current and classic case law, hypothetical situations, many real-life examples of lawyer and nonlawyer instances of misconduct and discussions of famous and infamous people as their situations relate to the topic. Examples of this material include a discussion of the disbarment proceedings against President Bill Clinton and F. Lee Bailey and news events involving Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, Newt Gingrich, Patty Hearst and Timothy McVeigh. Supporting material features more than 70 legal ethics Web sites, a complete glossary and significant ethics codes designed for paralegal and legal assistants. The book also boasts an exceptional instructor’s manual featuring chapter outlines, teaching suggestions, full case briefs for all case law in the text, chapter review questions and complete test banks for each chapter. Benefits: • dozens of real-life examples and cases bring the topic of legal ethics to life • thorough explanations teach the reader the how’s and why’s of the material • fully supported citations enable readers to conduct their own research from the text • the many devices used to impart the material enhance the reader’s interest and retention

Legal Ethics (The West Legal Studies Series)