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Reforming legal ethics in a regulated environment : the report on the Conference on Lawyer and Accountant Liability and Responsibility, December 10-11, 1993 in Washington, D.C. / sponsored by the Securities Law and Banking Law Committees of the Federal Bar Association and ALI-ABA.

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Corporate Authors: Conference on Lawyer and Accountant Liability and Responsibility Washington, D.C., Federal Bar Association. Securities Law Committee, Federal Bar Association. Banking Law Committee, American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: [Philadelphia, Pa.] : American Law Institute, [1994]
Subjects:
Legal ethics > United States.
Lawyers > Malpractice > United States.
Accountants > Malpractice > United States.
Bank failures > Law and legislation > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • I. An introductory overview / Lawrence G. Baxter
  • II. Office of Thrift Supervision activity addressing lawyer conduct / Dwight C. Smith, III and Lewis A. Segall
  • IV. Professional liability issues for accountants and lawyers / James R. Doty
  • V. Regulatory expectations regarding the conduct of attorneys in the enforcement of the federal securities laws: recent development and lessons for the future / James R. Doty
  • VI. Liability of attorneys and accountants for securities transactions / Robert J. Haft
  • VII. State legislative responses to the professional liability crisis / John C. Deal
  • XII. The American Law Institute's forthcoming restatement of the law governing lawyers / Lawrence J. Latto
  • XIII. Balancing the fourth branch: dealing with FDIC/RTC focus on attorney conduct / Dennis J. Lehr
  • XIV. The higher calling / Arthur W. Leibold, Jr.
  • XV. Zealous representation of thrift clients: can it exist? / Arthur W. Leibold, Jr.
  • XVI. Federal common law: part II / Arthur W. Leibold, Jr.
  • XVII. Statutory construction and the Kaye, Scholer freeze order / Keith R. Fisher
  • XVIII. Nibbling on the chancellor's toesies: a "roguish" concurrence with Professor Baxter / Keith R. Fisher
  • XIX. When courts refuse to frame the law and others frame it to their will/ Susan P. Koniak
  • XX. The need for separate codes of professional conduct for the various specialties / Stanley Sporkin
  • XXI. Lawyer and accountant responsibility / Stanley Sporkin
  • XXII. Practising securities law: a search for uniformity of professional standards / Paul Gonson and John W. Avery
  • XXIII. Unhappy pioneers: the S & L lawyers, liability has displaced ethics / Steve France
  • XXV. Legislation affecting the liability of accountants / A.A. Sommers, Jr.
  • XXVI. Accountants' liability / Dan L. Goldwasser.

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