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Author Abel, Richard L.

Title Lawyers on trial : understanding ethical misconduct / Richard L. Abel
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 501 pages)
Contents The politics of self-regulation -- Cops chasing ambulances -- Medical Injuries Compensation Reform Act : unconstitutional until proven otherwise -- Playing games with Sega -- Reaching for the brass ring -- Serving two masters -- Championing the "defenseless" and "oppressed," "widows and children" -- Making regulation work
Summary Richard L. Abel presents the stories of ten California lawyers who broke the rules: hiring an ex-cop to chase ambulances, flouting fee limitations in medical malpractice cases, creating a fictitious company and impersonating non-existent people in order to appropriate Sega's computer games
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject California. Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975.
SUBJECT Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 (California) fast (OCoLC)fst01379286
Subject Lawyers -- California -- Discipline
Legal ethics -- California
Practice of law -- California
LAW -- Ethics & Professional Responsibility.
Lawyers -- Discipline.
Legal ethics.
Practice of law.
California.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199826490
0199826498
9780199827077
0199827079