Lawyers, Clients, and Moral Responsibility

Edition : 3rd ed., 2025
Author(s) : Organ, Shaffer, Cochran Jr.

Lawyers, Clients, and Moral Responsibility
- ISBN: 9798887869568
- SKU: 95227
- Condition: New
- Format: Paperback
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For those interested in helping law students meaningfully explore who they want to be as lawyers as they work with their clients to find solutions to clients’ problems, the third edition of Lawyers, Clients, and Moral Responsibility provides a tremendous resource. With an increased emphasis on professional identity formation in legal education, this book provides a valuable tool for law professors, lawyers, and law students.

This third edition continues to present four models of the lawyer-client relationship based on different combinations of leadership and moral engagement in the conversation.

In the first two models, Autocrat and Hired Gun, the lawyer does not raise the issue of how the representation will affect other people. The Autocrat leads the decision-making, while the Hired Gun defers to the client.

The Guru model integrates a moral perspective, but it is the lawyer’s moral perspective, as the lawyer continues to lead the decision-making.

Finally, the Friend model encourages a moral conversation in which there is a discussion of the client’s moral perspective in a collaborative dialogue. The client remains the ultimate decision-maker supported by the expertise and guidance of the lawyer.

To enrich the consideration of moral perspectives, the third edition continues to address three moral virtues that often are relevant in the law office: Justice, Mercy, and Truthfulness. The Justice conversation has been broadened to address restorative justice in addition to other perspectives on justice.

This book could be used in professional formation courses, in experiential courses that implicate the attorney-client relationship, or as a part of the Professional Responsibility course.

Lawyers, Clients, and Moral Responsibility

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