The Rights of Lawyers and Clients
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Where can you turn for legal help besides a lawyer? When a lawyer is disciplined, what are his legal rights? What recourse does a lawyer have when he has failed a state bar exam? How can a client get different lawyers to bid for his case and get the lowest fee, best advice available? What are the grounds for a malpractice suit against a lawyer? At the foundation of American’s legal system is the attorney-client relationship, a complex interweaving of three separate sets of rights: the attorney’s, the client’s, and the joint set of rights governing their legal inter-actions. In the last quarter century, the nature of the way lawyers and clients approach one another has been radically altered. No longer does a client need a lawyer for many legal services, and in some states a client can now choose a lawyer in an open market of advertising and bidding. And today, in the post-Watergate legal community, lawyers must be aware that they too are subject to the law—malpractice, disbarment, and criminal prosecution—and must carefully weigh their actions and their client’s against not only the letter of the law but ethical principles. In this comprehensive handbook, Mr. Gillers, himself an attorney, details the rights of lawyers from law school of the courtroom, of clients from their search for legal assistance to payment of fees, and with the most important recent court rulings as a guide, untangles the maze of our legal rights—which insure all of the other rights of our lives. One of a series of ACLU Handbooks dealing with rights of people
Publication Date
1979
Recommended Citation
Gillers, Stephen, "The Rights of Lawyers and Clients" (1979). Faculty Books & Edited Works. 332.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-books-edited-works/332
