Abstract
This column questions the practices of labeling attorney copying, even without acknowledgement, as plagiarism, and treating it as a per se ethics violation. Instead, the column argues that analysis of copying in the litigation context should focus directly on the quality of the filing at issue and the competence and diligence of the lawyer who prepared it.
Keywords
plagiarism, legal filings, litigation, effective assistance of counsel, legal ethics
Publication Date
2011
Document Type
Article
Place of Original Publication
Criminal Justice
Publication Information
The Problems of Plagiarism as an Ethics Offense
Repository Citation
Joy, Peter A. and McMunigal, Kevin C., "The Problems of Plagiarism as an Ethics Offense" (2011). Faculty Publications. 580.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/faculty_publications/580
Comments
26 (2) Criminal Justice 56 (2011)