Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Download or read book Finding the Answers to Legal Questions Second Edition written by Virginia M. Tucker and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether for self-representation, to be an informed consumer of legal services, or to learn the U.S. legal system, more people than ever are using the library to obtain legal information and legal research advice. The new edition of Finding the Answers to Legal Questions is a comprehensive guide to help librarians confidently assist users in finding the legal information they need. Newly revised and updated, this timely, clearly organized, and easy-to-use resource is packed with guidance to help librarians answer questions that span the gamut of the law. An ideal book for practicing librarians looking to better serve users' legal needs, as well as for students preparing for careers as librarians, it provides an overview of fundamental legal information, including the basic structure of the U.S. legal system and primary law;how-to instructions for finding primary law in print sources, free websites, and pay-for-view databases;information on how to evaluate the trustworthiness of online and print resources;tips for conducting a legal reference interview;guidance for handling common legal questions, such as lawsuits, family law, landlord-tenant disputes, wills and estate planning, debt, bankruptcy, employment, and criminal law; andadvice on how to build a basic legal reference collection. This book will help librarians connect users to the most accurate, up-to-date legal information.
Download or read book Giving Legal Advice written by Elaine Heslop and published by Exhibit A. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as An Adviser's Toolkit: giving legal advice this new edition has been totally overhauled and re-structured. The result is a comprehensive guide that includes sections on core adviser skills, the adviser-client relationship and case management.
Download or read book The Following Does Not Constitute Legal Advice written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If I need to call in a plumber to come and fix my toilet, I expect to have my toilet fixed. I don't think that is asking too much. One thing I would not expect a plumber to do when fixing my toilet is to leave a massive floater in my toilet bowl. That is for me to do, once it is fixed. Lawyers, when they give useless advice, are doing the plumber equivalent of leaving a floater in the toilet bowl of their client's life. So much of what lawyers say and do is not what people want or need. People want real answers to legal questions, so their problem can be fixed or they can feel safe and protected. One day, not that long ago, I decided that I did not want to be a floater-leaving lawyer any more. I wanted to stop providing a form of legal 'service' that was great for my billable hours, but absolutely terrible for my clients. I wanted to see what would happen if I stopped giving legal advice and started giving proper, useful answers to people's legal questions and concerns. The result was my very first book, which I call 'The Following Does Not Constitute Legal Advice'. The book is made up of a collection of common legal questions, with straightforward legal answers. I cover how to get out of a speeding ticket, whether prostitution is legal, how it is legally possible to start a new country, whether dogs or cats are the better animal (legally speaking) and over 40 other topics. No answer is more than a few pages long, most feature one or two bits of course language, and all are intended to be helpful and useful.
Download or read book Employee Guide to Legal Advice written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
Download or read book Legal Reference for Librarians written by Paul D. Healey and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As both an attorney and a librarian, Healy’s background makes him uniquely qualified to advise library staff on providing users with the legal information they seek.
Download or read book 2021 Louisiana Legal Ethics written by Dane S Ciolino and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of complaints are filed against Louisiana lawyers each year. Many are caused by simple mistakes and innocent misunderstandings about what the rules of conduct require. For straightforward answers to professional responsibility questions, get Louisiana Legal Ethics: Standards & Commentary (2021), a comprehensive source for Louisiana legal ethics rules, cases, and indispensable practical advice. Updated for 2021 with more than 40 new reported decisions and ethics opinions. Prof. Dane S. Ciolino edits and annotates this book. He serves as the Alvin R. Christovich Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where he teaches legal ethics, advocacy, and evidence.
Download or read book Elder Law written by Kansas Bar Association and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Attorney client Privilege and the Work product Doctrine written by Edna Selan Epstein and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work-Product Doctrine has helped thousands of lawyers through this increasingly complex area. In addition to providing a comprehensive overview of the current law of the attorney-client and work-product immunities, the new edition includes many more case illustrations and contextual examples, as well as numerous practical tips and guidance. Practical, accurate, reliable and clear, this book is the ideal guide for a practicing litigator: intellectually rigorous, but without the theoretical and academic baggage that can make writing on this subject cumbersome and leaden.
Download or read book The Accidental Law Librarian written by Anthony Aycock and published by Information Today. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where can I find the case Simpson v. Satterfield? What are the laws in Nevada on gun ownership? Can you help me apply for a business license? How do I copyright my name? Questions like these make a new law librarian's head spin. The truth is, all librarians are apt to get legal questions, and most struggle to respond. Collection development, too, is tricky if you seldom work with legal publishers. As the law touches more and more of our daily lives while lawyers price their services out of the average person's range, the public increasingly turns to libraries for answers. Where can librarians turn? Okay, that one's easy--to Anthony Aycock s The Accidental Law Librarian.--From publisher description.
Download or read book The Law of Libraries and Archives written by Bryan M. Carson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The law should be accessible to every professional, which is the philosophy behind The Law of Libraries and Archives. In this invaluable book, legal concepts are explained in plain English so that librarians and archivists will be able to understand the principles that affect them on a daily basis. This book provides its readers with answers and raises issues for them to think about. In addition to providing a basic overview of the law, this work contains enough details to allow readers to make informed choices and to converse intelligently with legal counsel. Some of the issues included in the book include contracts, copyright and patent law, fair use, copyright exceptions for libraries, and the TEACH Act. The book contains chapters discussing trademark law, licensing of databases, information malpractice, and professionalism, as well as privacy issues, the PATRIOT Act, employment law, and the basics of starting a non-profit organization. Visit the author's website for a number of important documents and resources related to library law.
Download or read book Ethics and Professional Responsibility for Legal Assistants written by Therese A. Cannon and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This completely updated, definitive text on legal ethics and professional responsibility for legal assistants provides timely coverage of all ethical principles from the perspective of the practicing paralegal. The book includes: specific rules from the ABA Model Code and Model Rules on which state codes are based: references To The relevant ABA Guidelines For The Utilization of Legal Assistant Services; and ethical canons of the two major paralegal associations. Some features of special interest: The hallmarks that have Cannon's book so successful have been retained: extremely clear explanatory text accompanied by excellent examples; each chapter includes cases that demonstrate how the principles and rules are applied to legal assistants, review questions, and discussion questions that can be assigned as projects; Therese Cannon is a well-know and respected leader in paralegal education, and her book is regarded as one of the best available for paralegal students. The new Third Edition offers: new cases and trends in how states are addressing ethical isues involving paralegals; updated sections on unauthorized practice of law, non-lawyer legal services providers, conflicts of interest, and regulation; new information in chapter on confidentiality, particularly addressing changes resulting from technological innovations, and new cases dealing with confidentiality; coverage of new state ethical guidelines for using paralegals; and appendices updated with latest versions of ethical codes.
Download or read book A Hard And Heavy Thing written by Matthew J Hefti and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top 10 First Novels of 2016--Booklist 2016 Great Group Reads Selection Contemplating suicide after nearly a decade at war, Levi sits down to write a note to his best friend Nick, explaining why things have to come to this inevitable end. Years earlier, Levi--a sergeant in the army--made a tragic choice that led his team into ambush, leaving three soldiers dead and two badly injured. During the attack, Levi risked death to save a badly burned and disfigured Nick. His actions won him the Silver Star for gallantry, but nothing could alleviate the guilt he carried after that fateful day. He may have saved Nick in Iraq, but when Levi returns home and spirals out of control, it is Nick's turn to play the savior, urging Levi to write. Levi begins to type as a way of bidding farewell, but what remains when he is finished is not a suicide note. It's a love song, a novel in which the beginning is the story's end, the story's end is the real beginning of Levi's life, and the future is as mutable as words on a page.
Download or read book Access to Justice written by Rebecca L. Sanderfur and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, access to justice enjoys an energetic and passionate resurgence as an object both of scholarly inquiry and political contest, as both a social movement and a value commitment motivating study and action. This work evidences a deeper engagement with social theory than past generations of scholarship.
Download or read book Social Q s written by Philip Galanes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of whimsical essays by the New York Times "Social Q's" columnist provides modern advice on navigating today's murky moral waters, sharing recommendations for such everyday situations as texting on the bus to splitting a dinner check.
Download or read book Legal Aid Ils 210 written by Robert Egerton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume XII of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. First published in 1945, based on the authors experience and produced just before the Lord Chancellor appointed a committee led by Lord Rushcliffe, to enquire into the present facilities for giving legal advice and assistance to poor persons and for making recommendations for ensuring that these persons are able to access legal advice and aid.