Includes bibliographical references and index.

The many ways of regulating lawyers -- Formation and termination -- Aspects of an ongoing relationship -- Attorneys' fees and transactions with clients -- Representing entities and groups -- Incompetence : remedies for malpractice and constitutional ineffectiveness -- Confidentiality and secrecy -- Attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine -- Professional duty of confidentiality -- Perjury in civil and criminal litigation : the lawyer's "trilemma" -- Attorney conduct in litigation : forensic tactics, fair and foul -- The client fraud problem -- Overview of conflicts of interest -- Current client conflicts -- Current client conflicts issues in specific contexts -- Former client conflicts and migratory lawyers -- Personal-interest conflicts -- Attracting clients : advertising and solicitation -- Associations of lawyers -- The organized bar.