Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The Legal Profession's Role in American Society -- A. The United States: A Unique Government of Lawyers -- B. The Role of the Lawyer in America -- C. Attack on Lawyers and the Legal Profession -- 1. The American Bar Association Responds -- 2. The President's Counsel Defends -- D. Access to the American Legal System in Historical Perspective -- 1. Against the Bar: a Critique of Professor Auerbach's Views -- 2. Unequal Justice: a Review -- E. Legal Education -- Part II: Lawyers and the Search for Truth: Conflict or Harmony? -- A. The Art of Legal Advocacy: Duties and Obligations -- B. The Lawyer as a Hired Gun -- C. The Adversary Nature of the American Legal System: A Historical Perspective -- D. The Search for Truth: An Umpireal View -- 1. Judge Frankel's Search for Truth -- 2. The Advocate, The Truth, and Judicial Hackles: A Reaction to Judge Frankel's Idea -- E. The Attorney's Duty to Disclose the Commission of Criminal Acts-Two Views of the Lake Pleasant Case -- 1. The Impropriety of the Attorneys' Actions -- 2. The Propriety of the Attorneys' Actions -- F. Attempting to Regulate Perjurious Testimony: The Massachusetts Experience -- G. Perjury: Stay In or Pull Out? -- Part III: Regulating Professional Ethics: The Alger Hiss Reinstatement Controversy -- A. The Brief for the Petitioner, Alger Hiss -- B. Judgment of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court -- C. Reinstatement Dilemma: The Hiss Decision and Its Effects upon Disciplinary Enforcement -- Part IV: Special Prespectives -- A. The Washington Lawyer: Some Musings -- B. The International Lawyer: Extra-territorial Application of Professional Responsibility Standards -- C. Ethics in Medicine and Law: Standards and Conflicts -- Contributors' Acknowledgments -- Index.