While each state establishes the rules of legal ethics applicable to the practice of law in that jurisdiction, states generally start from the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct in formulating the rules for lawyers in that state. The common law and statutory law continue to play an important role in how lawyers should analyze challenges that arise in practice in fulfilling their professional duties.

Environmental practice can seem to involve an endless stream of ethical problems. These issues should always be taken seriously, but the need for cautious and thorough analysis of ethical questions is of paramount importance when issues of safety are implicated. Ethics and Environmental Practice deals with the critical questions that face the environmental lawyer, and considers the major issues relating to ethics challenges, including:

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Lawyering in a Time of Great Change by Lucian T. Pera
Chapter 2: Confidentiality and Security in a Modern World by Claudia Rast
Chapter 3: Modern Conflicts of Interest by Vicki J. Wright
Chapter 4: Ethical Considerations in Environmental Crime Prosecution and Defense by Jordan Gross and Walter James
Chapter 5: Representing the Organizational Client on Environmental Matters by Irma S. Russell and Joan MacLeod Heminway
Chapter 6: The Lawyer's Role in Representing Communities by Alexandra Dapolito Dunn and Hana Heineken
Chapter 7: Working with Other Professionals and Their Codes of Professionalism by Dan Chorost, Pamela R. Esterman, and Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz
Chapter 8: The Impact of Social Media and Cloud Computing on Environmental Law by Scott J. Sachs and Peter Serrano
Chapter 9: Special Considerations for Government Lawyers by Jeffrey S. Dennis
Chapter 10: International Practice and Ethical Considerations by Roger Martella
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