This is the third edition of the leading textbook on legal ethics and the regulation of the legal profession in England and Wales. As such it maps the complex regulatory environment in which the legal profession in England and Wales now operates. It opens with a critical overview of professional ideals, organisation, power and culture and an examination of the mechanisms of professions, exercised through governance, regulation, discipline and education. The core of the book explores the conflict between duties owed to clients (loyalty and confidentiality) and wider duties (to the profession, third parties and society). The final part applies lawyers' ethics to dispute resolution and settlement (litigation, negotiation, advocacy and alternative dispute settlement). Now laid out in a more accessible format and written in a more approachable style, the book is ideal reading for those teaching and learning in the field of legal ethics.

Andrew Boon is Professor of Law at City, University of London, UK.

Part I: Professional Ethics
Chapter One: Ideals
Chapter Two: Culture
Chapter Three: Power
Chapter Four: Organisation
Chapter Five: Governance
Chapter Six: Education
Chapter Seven: Regulation
Chapter Eight: Discipline
Chapter Nine: Loyalty
Chapter Ten: Confidences
Chapter Eleven: Conflicts of Interest
Chapter Twelve: Fees
Chapter Thirteen: Individual Third Parties
Chapter Fourteen: Collective Third Parties
Chapter Fifteen: Service
Chapter Sixteen: Employment
Chapter Seventeen: Litigation
Chapter Eighteen: Negotiation
Chapter Nineteen: Advocacy
Chapter Twenty: Alternative Dispute Resolution