Recommended Legal Treatises

Law Library's print copy not updated after February 2011.
Available on Lexis.

Current edition available on Lexis.
Law Library's print copy not updated after Sept. 2013.

Current edition available on Lexis.
Library's print copy not updated after April 2013.

Available on Westlaw.

Available on Lexis.

Library's print copy updated.
Available on Westlaw
Part of New York Practice Series

Current e-book edition on VitalLaw. Use title link.
Vital Law available only to Hofstra Law faculty, staff and students.

More than a discussion of professional regulation, this treatise addresses issues that every lawyer faces, such as conflict of interest, the client-lawyer relationship and confidentiality. In addition, specialized concerns are examined, including the role and responsibilities of lawyers as house counsel, government attorneys, mediators, prosecutors, and participants in the political process. This comprehensive survey also covers lawyer advertising, pro bono work, lawyer competence and other topics of modern practice. An entire chapter of this valuable reference is devoted to judges and the Judicial Code.

This Understanding treatise analyzes the fundamental issues of lawyers' ethics and the ABA's Model Rules. It is designed to facilitate a real understanding of legal rules as distinguished from a superficial familiarity with them by challenging the reader to test their understanding of the legal rules against the reader's own moral standards and reasoned judgment. The sixth edition has substantial new material on cross-examination in sexual assault cases; prosecution in the context of race and policing; the rise of the "progressive prosecutor movement"; the renewed call for the U.S. Supreme Court to abide by the Code of Judicial Ethics; and the ethics of lawyers engaged in former president Donald Trump's scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

5th edition (2022) available on West Academic.

Current edition available on Westlaw.
Print copy not updated after October 2014.

Eighth edition (2020) available on West Academic.
Library's print copy not updated.

Available on Lexis.

Also available on Westlaw and Westlaw ProView.

Available on Lexis, current through the 2008 supplement.

Also available on Lexis.