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

Introduction 1

I Clients

Introduction 13

1 Sex, Lies, and Depositions 14

2 My Lawyer Made Me Do It 19

3 Morally Gray 23

4 McKinney's Bluff 26

5 The Truth about Torts 29

6 A Missing Witness 36

7 Freedom Stories 40

8 The Importance of Being Honest 44

II Lawyers

Introduction 57

9 False Flats 59

10 Who Deserves the Truth? 65

11 When Honesty Isn't Enough 68

12 Hypocrisy on the Left 72

13 Requiem for a Faithful Lawyer 77

14 Evolution of Myth 80

15 Hidden Interests 84

16 When Conventional Wisdom Goes Wrong 87

17 Sensory Deception 91

18 How Lawyers (Ought to) Think 95

19 Truth in Humor 102

20 Confronting Cougars 111

III Judges

Introduction 117

21 Life Imitates Baseball 118

22 The Elusive Transparency of Ethics 123

23 Ducks in a Row 127

24 An Honest Day's Pay 134

25 Confirmation Mud 139

26 A Spouse Speaks 145

27 Veiled Justice 150

28 Bullying from the Bench 155

29 Thought Control 162

30 Platonic Censures 167

31 Stupid Judge Tricks 172

IV Academics

Introduction 179

32 Baring It All 180

33 False Positive 184

34 Truth in Citizenship 188

35 The Best Policy 194

36 Clinical Commandments 198

37 Pluto's Plight, and Ours 203

38 The Bedouin Horse Trade 207

39 There Are No Scriveners Here 215

V Medical Practice

Introduction 223

40 Ethics Business 224

41 Mistakes and Cover-Ups 229

42 The Benevolent Otolaryngologist 235

43 Desperate Doctors, Desperate Measures 242

Afterword 247

Notes and Sources 251

Index 261

About the Author 269