This book proposes a new model of professional ethics enabling lawyers to advise clients upon both the law and ethics. This will better protect clients, and society, and enhance lawyers' professional obligations. It draws on moral philosophy to present a new model of legal ethics that explains the analytical process to include ethical advice.

Dr Barbara Mescher is a lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia, in significant areas for business and the professions, including securities regulation, corporate governance and professional ethics. Barbara worked previously as a corporate lawyer and has continued to engage with the legal profession over several years as a member of the profession's Corporate Lawyers' Committee and the Ethics Committee.

List of acronyms and abbreviations

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Lawyers and their clients

Chapter 3: The James Hardie case study

Chapter 4: Theoretical Legal Ethics: Positivist v moral principles

Chapter 5: Legal ethics and moral philosophy

Chapter 6: Lawyers' professional obligations and moral philosophies

Chapter 7: A new model of legal ethics

Chapter 8: Conclusion

Index