Legal ethics

Includes bibliographical references (pages v-xiii) and index.

Introduction -- The American legal profession -- The law of lawyering -- The advocate's role in an adversary system -- The lawyer-client relationship -- Confidentiality and the attorney-client privilege -- Judicial controls of adversarial abuses -- Dilemmas of advocacy : the criminal law paradigm -- Conflicts of interest -- The lawyer's counseling role -- Ethics in organizational settings -- Negotiation and mediation -- Market regulation -- The distribution of legal services -- Admission to the bar -- Legal education -- Epilogue.