Many jurisdictions look at the intent of the attorney for his legal ghostwriting.

Apparently he is not getting the ghostwriting he deserves.

Still, it has only been in the last few years that ghostwriting has become like writing itself, with many categories and genres.

The humble trade of ghostwriting grew a shade humbler.

State bar associations and courts have split on the ethics of unbundling when it comes to legal ghostwriting.

Musical ghostwriting also occurs in popular music.

Others oppose legal ghostwriting because they believe it would allow an attorney to evade responsibility for a frivolous lawsuit filed by their client.

What was trickier to figure was where adults may have done some ghostwriting, and in the doing got in the way of youthful concerns.

One of the last areas of unbundled legal services to be embraced by state bar associations has been legal ghostwriting.

Legal ghostwriting is one way in which clients can receive legal counsel while maintaining control of their case and avoiding higher legal costs.

The ghostwriting of articles by pharmaceutical company officials, which are then presented by esteemed psychiatrists, has also been highlighted.

Ghostwriting of speeches is common, and it's both rare and refreshing for the official to give proper credit when, for example, the speeches are anthologized.

The New York County Law Association agreed with the ABA approach to legal ghostwriting in a 2010 ethics opinion paper.

In 2007 the ABA relaxed its professional ethical rules to expressly permit unbundled legal services and legal ghostwriting in Rule 1.2(c).

Legal ghostwriting usually entails an attorney drafting a legal document - such as a summons and complaint, an answer or an appellate brief - on behalf of a client.

Certain critics have argued that legal ghostwriting actually gives the self-represented litigant an unfair advantage over his or her adversary, even when that adversary has an attorney.

Evidence of ghostwriting has also surfaced in federal and state investigations of Warner-Lambert's marketing of Neurontin, an epilepsy drug, for more than a dozen unapproved uses.

Newcomer to the writing team is librettist Terrence McNally, with reportedly extensive ghostwriting by Brian Yorkey ("Next to Normal").

Legal ghostwriting is a form of unbundled legal services in the United States in which an attorney drafts a document on behalf of a client without formally appearing before the court.

However the American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct have been amended to allow for legal ghostwriting where the attorney merely intends to offer unbundled legal services to a client.

In April 2010, the New York County Law Association echoed the ABA opinion by formally giving its blessing to the practice of legal ghostwriting as consistent with the state bar's ethical rules.

A common criticism of legal ghostwriting is that it gives the self-represented litigant an unfair advantage because judges often grant pro se litigants leeway in the courtroom to make up for their lack of experience.

With medical ghostwriting, pharmaceutical companies pay both professional writers to produce papers and then pay other scientists or physicians to attach their names to these papers before they are published in medical or scientific journals.

Grand Daddy I.U. did ghostwriting and production work for Markie and Roxanne Shanté but became disenchanted with Markie over a dispute involving publishing credits for the tracks on his debut.

"Within a few brief pages," one critic said, "this master satirist conveys the essences of characters in revealing situations, covering a wide range of both settings and plots, from murder to ghostwriting, from 18th-century England to the 20th-century Riviera.