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The hospital-based attorney as patient advocate

Authors: Herb, Alice
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the legal and ethical issues concerning a hospital-based legal services for HIV-infected patients. Significance of providing legal services within the clinical context; Role of a hospital-based attorney; Key factors to con...
Year: 1995

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:01

Declaring Bankruptcy to Get Out of a Contract

Authors: Hinman, Lawrence ; Englehardt, Elaine ; Leever, Martin ; Robert Ladenson ; Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: As the attorney representing an upcoming rock group, you are trying to figure out a way for the group to break with their "new kid" contract that heavily favors the recording company they work with. A lawsuit requesting a court ord...
Year: 2001
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Declaring%20Bankrupsy%20to%20Get%20Out%20of%20a%20Contract.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-06 15:12

How Do Judges Think?

Authors: Zandt, David E. Van
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Discusses four distinct models of judicial reasoning, and mentions how, in the author's experience, judges are no different from everyone else in how they interpret and judge a problem. Because judges' reasoning is simply human reas...
Year: 1992
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/index1.php/Publications/Perspectives%20on%20the%20Professions%20Online

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-05-06 15:31

Cross Examination of a Witness

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: You are the attorney for the defense in a case in which your client has been accused of a robbery. Your case hangs on a single witness, an elderly woman who is slightly nervous and wears glasses. She testifies that she saw your clie...
Year: 9999
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/cross%20examination.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-07-13 13:54

Cooperative Beneficence and Professional Obligations

Authors: Weiner, Rory B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: Article tries to answer the question "is cooperative behavior to benefit others obligatory or supererogatory (i.e., Heroic)?" The author discusses the difference between obligatory and supererogatory behaviors, and explains why the ...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:43

The Duty of Zealous Representation for Lawyers

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Smith, a lawyer, is defending a young woman named Joan accused of shoplifting a Christmas ornament costing $2.00. In an interview Smith had with the owner of the store before the trial, the store owner mentioned some key details tha...
Year: 1995
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Shoplifting.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-03 14:48