The Kaye Scholer affair: The lawyer's duty of candor and the bar's temptations of evasion and apology

Law and Social Inquiry

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 243-295

  Simon, William H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032327703     PISSN: 08976546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/492630     Document Type: Article

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