Find practical answers to hard questions about professional conduct -- and avoid wrong answers that could set back your firm -- with this authoritative guide to legal ethics. Drawing on statutes, standards, and actual cases, the authors show you how to: Evaluate tactics for possible ethical consequences-- Understand and comply with statutes, procedural rules, and standards of professional conduct while zealously representing your client-- Prevent your opponents from turning the rules to their own advantageYou'll find concise, authoritative discussion of ethical problems that arise in such critical areas as: Investigation of claims-- Abuse of discovery-- Conflicts of interest-- Burdensome interrogatories-- Trial in the media-- VOIR DIRE and juror investigation-- Deposition tactics-- Special fee arrangements-- Settlement negotiations-- Withdrawal and client confidentiality-- Arguing false inferences based on inadmissible evidence-- Plus detailed attention to the special problems that arise in criminal defense, insurance defense, and class actions.