Legal Ethics Chair
The Project is implemented with the support of United States Agency for International Development(USAID) within the framework of East-West Management Institute’s (EWMI) project Promoting Rule of Law in Georgia (PROLoG).
Library
Regulations:
Publications:
Winning articles of the students of writing competition on Legal Ethics:
List of books available at NVU Library:
- Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right, Gentile, Mary C.
- Siegels Professional Responsibility: Essay Multi Choice Q & A, Fifth Edition by Brian N. Siegel Published by Aspen Publishers 5th (fifth) edition (2012) Paperback
- Legal Ethics, Herring, Jonathan
- Examples & Explanations: Professional Responsibility, Wendel, W. Bradley
- Deborah Rhode Legal Ethics: Law Stories (1st Edition)
- Kent Kauffman Legal Ethics (3rd Edition)
- Ethics for the Legal Professional (8th Edition), Orlik, Deborah K.
Case briefs of the GBA ethics commission and Supreme court disciplinary chamber decisions/recommendations:
Dishonesty and unqualified representation
Applicability of ethics rules to attorneys
Conflict of Interest
Informing a client
Legality
Priority of client's interests
Handle a case under the client's instructions
Collegiality
Confidentiality
Obligation to respect the rights of participants in a trial
Submitting false evidence to the court
The Role of a Lawyer
Trust
Prohibition to guarantee of the desired outcome
Communication with court
Obligation to unconditionally return all documents, funds and other property transferred or entrusted by the client
Obligation to deposit trust funds in an independent account
Maintaining records of the case proceeding costs
Ethics code, Article 8.8 Defining lawyer's fees
Deprivation of a defendant's right to counsel
Proper applicant
Applicability of the Ethics code to a lawyer's interns
Dishonesty
Decisions of the ECHR on Freedom of Expression of lawyers