What the
reviewers are saying about present or past editions of:
Legal Ethics: The Lawyer's Deskbook on
Professional Responsibility (ABA/West, St. Paul, MN).
"This book is
indispensable."
The
Reverend Robert F. Drinan, S.J.
Professor
of Law
Faculty
Advisor to the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics
Georgetown
University Law Center
Washington,
DC
Rotunda, a former “attorney
for the Senate Watergate Committee,” is the “leading ethics authority.”
John
Dean, former Counsel to President Nixon, author of Blind Ambition and Lost Honor.
John Dean, Watergate: Lessons for
Today, nearly 40 Years Later, Ohio
Lawyer, July/August 2011, 10, 14.
Rotunda, "one of
the nation's leading authorities on Legal Ethics," has given us a
"current, comprehensive publication of enormous practical value to the
busy lawyer." This "Deskbook offers practical guidance for busy
lawyers through the minefields in legal ethics."
William
Reece Smith, Jr.
Former
President, ABA
Carlton,
Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A.
Tampa,
FL
"Professor
Rotunda's work should be on every lawyer's desk. The Deskbook is bread and
butter and meat and potatoes stuff."
Robert
P. Cummins
Member,
ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism
Cummins
& Cronin
Chicago,
IL.
"It is a
colossal contribution to the study of professional responsibility."
Raymond
R. Trombadore
Former
Chair, ABA Standing Committee on Professional Discipline.
Raymond
R & David W. Trombadore. PC
Somerville,
NJ
"Fortunately, this
book also reflects Professor Rotunda's imitable style: included are hundreds of
often amusing and always practical plain-English observations and suggestions
on scores of important legal ethics issues."
Robert
E. O'Malley
Senior
Loss Prevention Advisor
Attorneys'
Liability Assurance Society, Inc.
Chicago,
IL
Rotunda's book is
"...an invaluable resource for both lawyers and judges."
Bill
Pryor
former
Attorney General, State of Alabama.
"Professor
Rotunda has distilled his over 25 years' experience in the field of legal
ethics into a volume designed to help busy lawyers stay out of trouble."
Thomas
D. Morgan
Professor
of Law
The
George Washington University Law School
Washington,
DC
"Even lawyers
with extensive experience in legal ethics issues will find this book very
helpful."
Samuel Dash
Professor
of Law
Georgetown
University Law Center
Washington,
DC
"No lawyer
planning to practice in the 21st century can afford to ignore Rotunda's
scholarly and complete review of the obligations assumed by those of us given
the privilege to practice law."
Phillip
Carroll, Of Counsel
Rose
Law Firm
Little
Rock, AR
"My personal
favorite . . . a pretty complete treatment of almost every ethics issue you
will ever see . . . ."
Lucian
Pera,
Armstrong
Allen, PLLC, and a member of the ABA's Special Commission on the Evaluation of
the Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Memphis,
TN