Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Clients -- Introduction -- Sex, Lies, and Depositions -- My Lawyer Made Me Do It -- Morally Gray -- McKinney's Bluff -- The Truth about Torts -- A Missing Witness -- Freedom Stories -- The Importance of Being Honest -- Part II: Lawyers -- Introduction -- False Flats -- Who Deserves the Truth? -- When Honesty Isn't Enough -- Hypocrisy on the Left -- Requiem for a Faithful Lawyer -- Evolution of Myth -- Hidden Interests -- When Conventional Wisdom Goes Wrong -- Sensory Deception -- How Lawyers (Ought to) Think -- Truth in Humor -- Confronting Cougars -- Part III: Judges -- Introduction -- Life Imitates Baseball -- The Elusive Transparency of Ethics -- Ducks in a Row -- An Honest Day's Pay -- Confirmation Mud -- A Spouse Speaks -- Veiled Justice -- Bullying from the Bench -- Thought Control -- Platonic Censures -- Stupid Judge Tricks -- Part IV: Academics -- Introduction -- Baring It All -- False Positive -- Truth in Citizenship -- The Best Policy -- Clinical Commandments -- Pluto's Plight, and Ours -- The Bedouin Horse Trade -- There Are No Scriveners Here -- Part V: Medical Practice -- Introduction -- Ethics Business -- Mistakes and Cover-Ups -- The Benevolent Otolaryngologist -- Desperate Doctors, Desperate Measures -- Afterword -- Notes and Sources -- Index -- About the Author.