Fair Fight : (Record no. 33856)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781641055697 |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781641055680 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)1402816035 |
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| Language of cataloging | eng |
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| Classification number | KF306 .F695 2020 |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 174.30973 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Fox, Lawrence J. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Fair Fight : |
| Remainder of title | Legal Ethics for Litigators. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | La Vergne : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | American Bar Association, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2020. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2020. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (441 pages) |
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| Content type term | text |
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| Formatted contents note | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author Biographies -- Part One: The Big Picture -- The Daunting Task -- Chapter 1: Five Steps to a Fair Fight -- 1.01 Step One: Identify Your Client Obligations-The Six Cs -- 1.02 Step Two: Clarify Your Fee -- 1.03 Step Three: Attend to the Six Cs -- Client Identification -- Competence -- Control -- Communication -- Confidentiality -- Conflicts of Interest -- 1.04 Step Four: Observe the Limits of the Law -- 1.05 Step Five: Recognize Remedies -- 1.06 Our Problem Approach -- LinkedIn -- Part Two: Who Is Your Client? -- Why Identifying Your Client Matters -- Chapter 2: Beginning a Client-Lawyer Relationship: Actual, Implied, and Prospective Clients -- 2.01 Introduction: When Does It All Begin? -- 2.02 Marketing -- Modern Marketing -- 2.03 Engagement Agreements -- 2.04 Crafting an Engagement Letter -- The Engagement Letter -- 2.05 Engagement Letters: Wrap-Up -- 2.06 Non-engagement Letters -- 2.07 The Meaning of the Initial Meeting -- The Nonexistent Non-engagement Letter -- 2.08 Implied Clients -- The Speech -- 2.09 Social Meetings -- Casual Advice -- 2.10 E-lawyering -- Website Advertising -- 2.11 Prospective Clients -- Beauty Contests -- Chapter 3: Ending a Client-Lawyer Relationship: Former Clients -- 3.01 Introduction: Completing a Representation -- 3.02 Disengagement Letters -- 3.03 Staying In or Getting Out -- Completing a Case -- 3.04 What Do You Intend? -- The Ambiguous Disengagement Letter -- 3.05 Keeping Confidences -- The Wrong Use -- 3.06 Lawyers Changing Jobs -- Departing General Counsel -- Chapter 4: Court Appointments, Pro Bono, and Unpopular Clients -- 4.01 Introduction: Clients Who Have Difficulty Finding a Lawyer -- 4.02 Court Appointments in Criminal Cases. |
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| Formatted contents note | The Obstinate Defendant -- 4.03 Court Appointments in Civil Cases -- Appointed Pro Bono -- 4.04 Pro Bono Clients -- The Legal Services Hotline -- 4.05 Unpopular Clients -- But They Can Pay -- Chapter 5: Joint Clients -- 5.01 Introduction: Joint Clients and Joint Loyalty -- 5.02 Marriage Dissolution -- Prohibited Joint Clients -- 5.03 Group or Aggregate Settlements -- The Homeowner's Settlement -- 5.04 Accommodation Clients -- Accommodating the Client's Employee -- Prospective Waivers -- Confidential Information and Third-Party Payment -- 5.05 Employer and Employee -- The Company Accident -- 5.06 Co-plaintiffs -- All in the Family -- 5.07 Common-Interest Arrangements -- Coerced Cooperation -- Chapter 6: Insurance Defense and Other Third-Party Funders -- 6.01 Introduction: The Triangular Relationship -- 6.02 Third-Party Funders -- Professional Independence? -- 6.03 Insurers -- The Eternal Triangle -- 6.04 Offers to Settle Within Policy Limits -- The Unreasonable Insurance Company -- 6.05 Policy Defenses -- Learning Too Much -- Chapter 7: Entity and Government Clients -- 7.01 Introduction: The Legal Fiction -- 7.02 Close Corporations -- Who Is the Client, Really? -- 7.03 Corporate Families -- Do I Have to Tell the Parent? -- 7.04 Entity Client Depositions -- Accommodating the CEO, CFO, and the Board -- 7.05 Identifying a Government Client -- The State or the Department? -- 7.06 The Government Client -- 7.07 Government Consent -- For Want of a Writing -- 7.08 The Departing Government Lawyer -- Ordinary Former Lawyers? -- Chapter 8: Clients Who Morph -- 8.01 Introduction: Clients Can Change -- 8.02 Clients Who Die -- Disappearing Damages -- 8.03 Clients with Diminished Capacity -- Getting Old -- 8.04 Children -- Client Testimony Versus Client Best Interests -- 8.05 Class Action Clients. |
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| Formatted contents note | The Uncertified Class -- 8.06 Companies That Fail -- Company Bankruptcy -- 8.07 Changes in Management -- The New CEO -- Part Three: Representing Clients -- Lawyers and Clients: Fiduciary Duty -- Chapter 9: Fees, Glorious Fees -- 9.01 Introduction: Reasonable Limitations on Fee Contracts -- 9.02 Chart: Written Fee Agreements Requirements by State -- 9.03 Reasonable Hourly Fees -- 9.04 Calculating and Charging Hourly Fees -- The Honest Hour -- 9.05 Disbursements -- Contract Lawyers as Profit Centers -- 9.06 Reasonable Contingent Fees -- 9.07 Contingent-Fee Look Backs -- 20-20 Hindsight -- 9.08 Reverse Contingent Fees -- Avoiding the Billable Hour -- 9.09 Reasonable Fixed Fees -- 9.10 Limits on Fixed Fees -- Flat-Fee Insurance Defense -- 9.11 Fee Splitting -- Earning That Referral Fee -- 9.12 Changing Fee Agreements -- Owning the Store -- 9.13 Fee Modification -- 9.14 Lawyer Hindsight -- The Bad Deal -- 9.15 Fees on Termination -- 9.16 The Client's Power to Terminate -- Fired! -- 9.17 Statutory Fee-Shifting Agreements -- Our Contract -- 9.18 Court-Awarded Fee Enhancements -- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished -- 9.19 Statutory Fees -- 9.20 Class Action Fees -- The Justified Settlement -- Chapter 10: Competence -- 10.01 Introduction: Why You Were Hired in the First Place -- 10.02 Reasonable Competence -- Expanding Your Practice -- 10.03 Reasonable Diligence -- Diligence: Not to Worry -- 10.04 Chart: Legal Malpractice and Breach of Fiduciary Duty -- 10.05 Obvious Errors -- 10.06 Obvious Negligence -- Missing a Deadline -- 10.07 How to Respond to Errors -- 10.08 Chart: Lawyer Tort Liability to Nonclients -- 10.09 Lawyer Liability to Third Persons -- Third-Party Obligations -- 10.10 Third-Person Obligations: The Law of Deceit -- 10.11 Third-Person Obligations When Opining -- The Opinion Boilerplate. |
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| Formatted contents note | 10.12 Lawyer Legal Accountability to Nonclients -- 10.13 Third-Person Obligations When Representing Fiduciaries -- You Can Break the Contract -- Chapter 11: Control -- 11.01 Introduction: Who's in Charge? -- 11.02 Chart: Authority Between Client and Lawyer -- 11.03 Client Control -- 11.04 Settlement Authority -- Who Decides? -- 11.05 Settlement Offers -- A Client's Change of Mind -- 11.06 Aggregate Settlements -- The Union Members' Agreement -- 11.07 Plea Bargains -- Buyer's Remorse -- 11.08 Client Instructions -- Don't Talk to Mama -- 11.09 Advance Consent -- Reasonable Settlement Agreements -- 11.10 Negotiation Strategy -- What Does the Client Know? -- 11.11 Lawyer Authority -- 11.12 Lawyer or Client? -- Lawyer Accepts an Offer -- 11.13 Exclusive Lawyer Control -- The Lawyer's Prerogative -- 11.14 The Middle Ground: Client-Lawyer Consultation -- 11.15 Litigation Strategy -- Who Knows Best? -- 11.16 Limited Scope Agreements -- 11.17 Insurance Defense Control -- Insurance Intermeddlers -- 11.18 Chart: Lawyer's Authority to Act for Client -- Chapter 12: Communication -- 12.01 Introduction: The Foundation of the Six Cs -- 12.02 Informed Consent -- 12.03 Informed Consent: When? -- Bad News -- 12.04 Reasonable Consultation -- The Profitable Summary Judgment Motion -- 12.05 Keeping the Client Reasonably Informed -- Client Consultation -- 12.06 Reasonable Alternatives -- ADR -- 12.07 Hiring Another Lawyer -- Hiring Reinforcements -- 12.08 Chart: Eight Events That Trigger a Lawyer's Duty to Communicate with a Client -- Chapter 13: Confidentiality -- 13.01 Introduction: The Never-Ending Obligation -- 13.02 Chart: Source and Scope of Client Confidentiality Obligations -- 13.03 Scope of the Confidentiality Protection -- 13.04 Client Identity and Public Documents. |
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| Formatted contents note | 13.05 Client Information in Public Records -- Currying the Favor of the Press -- 13.06 Client Identity and Client Matters -- The Law-Firm Website -- 13.07 Using Confidential Information -- The Great Opportunity -- 13.08 Advanced Waivers of Confidentiality -- Don't Bother the Client -- 13.09 Informed Consent or Waiver? -- Confidentiality Waivers -- 13.10 Chart: Confidentiality Duties to Current, Former, and Prospective Clients -- 13.11 Confidentiality in Joint Representations -- Multiple Clients/Multiple Secrets/Former Clients -- 13.12 Prospective Client Confidentiality -- The Juicy Tidbit from a Prospective Client -- 13.13 Chart: Client Confidentiality Exceptions -- 13.14 Confidentiality Exceptions -- Defending Yourself . . . Cleverly -- 13.15 Confidentiality Exceptions: Threats of Substantial Bodily Harm or Death -- Client Threats -- 13.16 Confidentiality Exceptions: Wrongful Conviction -- The Shoe Pinches -- 13.17 Confidentiality Exceptions: Seeking Advice -- Getting Advice Outside Your Firm -- 13.18 Confidentiality Exceptions: Lawyer Self-Defense -- The Turncoat Lawyer -- 13.19 Confidentiality Exceptions: Law or Court Order -- Can You Trust the Trustee? -- 13.20 Confidentiality Exceptions: Law or Court Order -- Is This a Tribunal? -- 13.21 Confidentiality Exceptions: Law or Court OrderStaying Out of Jail -- Staying Out of Jail -- 13.22 Rule 1.6 Exceptions to Client Confidentiality by State -- Chapter 14: Privilege and Work Product -- 14.01 Introduction: The Privileges: Scope of the Protections -- 14.02 Privileged Communications -- Privilege or Pretense -- 14.03 Privileged Persons -- Sometimes You Don't Want Privilege -- The Consulted Accountant -- 14.04 Employee Email -- It's Our Computer -- 14.05 Privilege and Shareholders -- The Derivative Suit -- 14.06 Creating Work Product -- The Investigation. |
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| Formatted contents note | 14.07 Work-Product Protection. |
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| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
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| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Legal ethics-United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Trial practice-United States. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Martyn, Susan R. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Fox, Lawrence J. |
| Title | Fair Fight |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | La Vergne : American Bar Association,c2020 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781641055680 |
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