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Search - The Importance of Being Honest: How Lying, Secrecy, and Hypocrisy Collide with Truth in Law

The Importance of Being Honest How Lying Secrecy and Hypocrisy Collide with Truth in Law
Author: Steven Lubet

"Lubet…tackles a series of subtle and thorny ethical questions that lawyers and judges face each day. These questions can challenge their integrity, determine their effectiveness and affect how the public views the legal profession….Lubet’s central concern, which he mines adeptly, is with actions that are arguably legal but may also be strategic... more »ally or morally wrong. Lubet’s writing is a great strength: straightforward, funny, intelligent and devoid of legalese. Like a good color analyst, he conveys an insider’s knowledge in an entertaining and informative way. "

?Publishers’ Weekly”The Importance of Being Honest is both funny and dangerous. In pulling the lid off the hypocrisy and delusions at virtually every level of the legal profession, he is in danger of touching off a chain reaction that could result in the average American’s understanding and thus his and her ability to reform the legal system.”

—Allen Barra, Wall Street Journal”Lubet probes some of the thorniest ethical and legal questions facing us, and respects both his reader and the law enough to avoid simplistic answers. Whether he’s scrutinizing Bill Clinton's relationship to his lawyer, reassessing what we know about the Scopes Monkey trial, or evaluating the demotion of Pluto, Lubet’s book offers a fresh lens through which to view legal questions.”

—Dahlia Lithwick, Slate.com”Lubet is so witty and entertaining that you may not even notice how much you're learning about the dangers of ‘honesty-deficient lawyers and judges.’ A real eye-opener!”

—Rachel Maines, author of The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual SatisfactionPopular author Steven Lubet brings his signature blend of humor, advocacy, and legal ethics to The Importance of Being Honest, an incisive analysis of how honesty and law play out in current affairs and historical events. Drawing on original work as well as op-ed pieces and articles that have appeared in the American Lawyer, the Chicago Tribune, and many other national publications, Lubet explores the complex aspects of honesty in the legal world. The Importance of Being Honest is full of tales of questionable practices and poor behavior, chosen because negative examples are much richer, and often more remarkable, in their ultimate lessons. Wyatt Earp’s shootout with Billy Clanton, Bill Clinton’s disastrous decision to lie under oath, Oscar Wilde’s self-destructive perjury in a 1896 libel trial, and the dubious resolution of Justice Scalia’s duck hunting trip with Dick Cheney are only a few of the cases Lubet use to illustrate that law is a vague and boggy realm where truth, and falsehood, is seldom absolute. With his lively, insightful, and sometimes hilarious prose, Lubet takes readers on a tour of the law in our everyday lives, and forces us to rethink how we really feel about honesty and truth.

ISBN-13: 9780814752210
ISBN-10: 0814752217
Publication Date: 5/17/2007
Pages: 272
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Publisher: New York University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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