Download or read book Professional Responsibility in the Life of the Lawyer written by Alex B. Long and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Download or read book Connecting Ethics and Practice written by Katerina P. Lewinbuk and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Connecting Ethics and Practice: A Lawyer’s Guide to Professional Responsibility, Second Edition, Katerina Lewinbuk explains the legal, professional, and ethical constraints that regulate attorneys, while keeping the modern law professor and student in mind. Contemporary cases and articles are used to provide for an easier understanding of the Model Rules and Judicial Cannons, which assists in preparing for law school exams and the MPRE. The author employs a user-friendly coursebook format organized in a logical manner, while achieving a realistic and manageable length. Mind-maps are provided with every chapter to help students visualize and remember selected rules, and discussion questions are used to allow the students to fully comprehend and digest the reading, while also demonstrating real-life struggles most lawyers face at some point in their career. Based on the unique format, students systematically cover all important aspects of the legal journey from law school to the legal profession. New to the Second Edition: Two-color format and new design add visual appeal Revised chapters contain contemporary cases, discussions, and studies Updates include recent changes to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct New coverage includes: Discussion of the ethical issue relating to Judge Kavanaugh hearings Recent famous case of McCoy v. Louisiana New statistics re: women in the legal profession and malpractice claims against lawyers Professors and students will benefit from: The easy-to-follow logical sequence of all relevant rules that are clearly articulated at the beginning of the book and then reiterated accordingly in every chapter Structured material that is well-suited for a new or experienced professor Chapters based on quality readings as opposed to quantity Engaging, realistic examples that exhibit how each Rule relates to practice Simple, consistent organization of each chapter—offering a clear, logical layout and allowing for ease of use and teaching throughout Chapter introductions that begin with concise explanations of the applicable Rules to be discussed Controversial, contemporary, and thought-provoking readings Discussion questions at the end of each reading, as well as at the end of each chapter, that encourage colorful and lively dialogue and participation Table of Model Rules with applicable page numbers for easy reference
Download or read book Professional Responsibility in Focus written by John P. Sahl and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Edition of Professional Responsibility in Focus offers a comprehensive, updated exposition of the law governing lawyers and judges. Real-world scenarios throughout the text provide students numerous opportunities for students to apply what they have learned and solidify their understanding of important concepts. New to the Second Edition: More than a dozen new cases and other recent developments—such as the amended advertising and solicitation rules—in an expanded, practice-oriented text with new and revised footnotes. Professors and students will benefit from: Clear and concise coverage of the attorney-client relationship, competence, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and more. Key Concepts at the start of each chapter and Chapter Summaries at the end of each chapter facilitate study and review Case Previews and Post Case Follow-Ups that frame each case writing clarifies the rules and aid in student understanding An introduction to the legal profession Real Life Applications and Applying the Rules exercises challenge students to apply what they have learned to realistic hypothetical scenarios Updates to Chapter One, on the moral responsibility of lawyers, that provides context for understanding and situating the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility covered in the chapters that follow. 12-chapter organization is easily adapted to two or three-credit courses
Download or read book Ethics Professional Responsibility and the Lawyer written by Duncan Alexander Webb and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2000 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A text for lawyers and students of law which explores theoretical foundations, professional ethical requirements, the lawyer-client relationship, conflicts of interest, duties to the administration of justice, and duties in legal practice. The NZ Law Society's 'Rules of Professional Conduct' 1998 are included. Webb lectures in Law at Victoria University.
Download or read book Examples Explanations for Professional Responsibility written by W. Bradley Wendel and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-19 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seventh Edition of Examples & Explanations for Professional Responsibility is a thorough and comprehensive text that can be used by students as a study aid and by professional responsibility teachers as a class text. It covers the whole field of professional responsibility, focusing not only on the ABA Model Rules, but on the often-complex relationship between the rules and doctrines of agency, tort, contract, evidence, and constitutional law. Beginning with the formation of the attorney-client relationship, the book proceeds through topics including attorneys’ fees, malpractice and ineffective assistance of counsel, confidentiality and privilege rules, conflicts of interest, witness perjury and litigation misconduct, advertising and solicitation, admission to practice, and the organization of the legal profession. Coverage includes all subjects that are tested on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE), including judicial ethics, a subject tested on the MPRE and not often covered thoroughly, if at all, in law school professional responsibility courses; the ABA's simplification of the rules on advertising and solicitation; Model Rule 8.4(g) on discrimination in the practice of law; the California Supreme Court's Sheppard Mullin opinion on advance waivers of conflicts, and continuing developments in the impact of technology on the practice of law. New to the Seventh Edition: Expanded coverage of developments in the law having to do with lawyering, including ABA rules, ethics opinions, and cases New and revised examples and explanations in many chapters Top-to-bottom comprehensive revision and updates of all areas of professional responsibility, with attention to areas that are particularly challenging for students (as well as many practicing lawyers!), such as conflicts of interest and privilege and confidentiality Professors and students will benefit from: A study aid that, without "teaching to the test," provides students with thorough preparation for the MPRE, which is the first licensing exam that many law students take MPRE-style multiple-choice questions in the Examples The depth and sophistication of the coverage
Download or read book Learning Professional Responsibility written by Leah M. Christensen and published by West Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning Professional Responsibility engages students by offering colorful, real-life examples of how the Professional Responsibility rules guide and regulate lawyers in the everyday practice of law. This textbook deconstructs the ethics rules and bypasses long case-law narratives in favor of clear examples and illustrations drawing on ethics opinions, current events and lawyer news, online commentary, and court decisions. This second edition further highlights cutting-edge issues in professional responsibility, including topics such as the scope of representation, the duty of candor, conflicts, and the duty to protect client confidences in electronic formats.
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Download or read book An Introduction to Professional Responsibility written by Nathan M. Crystal and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief thoughtful overview of professional responsibility issues can be used along side any professional responsibility casebook key cases and effective problems help students probe the lawyer's obligations to clients, The legal system, third parties, And The public. Crystal draws on legal, professional, and ethical standards to describe and critically examine significant principles and rules that constrain professional conduct. He skillfully integrates a practical discussion of the source of these repsonibilities -- ABA Codes, Ethics Advisory Opinions, specific states codes and practice norms, statutory law, and case decisions -- with careful consideration of the policy implications of professional responsibility. Tackling the most important subjects one at a time, Introduction to Professional Responsibility opens with an introductory chapter on the scope of lawyer's obligations, then progresses to: the Lawyer-Client relationship Loyalty, including actual and potential conflicts of interest Confidentiality Zealousness and Its Limits Delivery of Legal services Lawyers in Public Positions: Judges and Government Lawyers As students explore the philosophy of lawyering through the pages of this book, they will also confront basic principles of ethics and morality. Thoroughly researched, well written, and soundly reasoned, Introduction to Professional Responsibility helps future lawyers recognize that professional conduct has deeper, more important dimensions than mere technical competence.
Download or read book Professional Responsibility written by Deborah L. Rhode and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deborah Rhode, 1998 President of the American Association of Law Schools, organizes Professional Responsibility around real-life problems and exercises based on reported cases and commentary to give students needed exposure To The ethical dimensions of lawyering. Divided into two major parts, Professional Responsibility opens with material central to all courses in professional responsibility: Traditions of Moral Reasoning Regulation of the Profession Advocacy the Adversary System Confidentiality Conflicts of Interest Negotiation and Mediation the lawyer-Client Relationship the next part of the book applies this information to specific substantive areas of law: Civil Procedure Constitutional Law Contracts Corporations Criminal Law and Procedure Evidence and Trial Advocacy Family Law Property Tax Torts Extensive cross-referencing emphasizes substantive connections among the chapters and facilitates and integrated approach To The material. Each chapter includes problems leading to cases, commentary, inter disciplinary notes, and references. Rhode devotes careful attention To The Model Code of Professional responsibility And The Model rules Professional Conduct. Instructors will find the full revised Teacher's Manual with its simulation exercises, preparatory notes, questions, background materials, and bibliographic references and extremely helpful teaching tool. Numerous problems and several new simulation exercises highlight this revision. Race, gender, and ethic bias; alternative dispute resolution; and relationships between lawyers in organizational setting are just a few examples of the many timely issues Rhode addresses as she delves into the substantive application of professional ethics.
Download or read book Ethics Professional Responsibility and the Lawyer written by Duncan Alexander Webb and published by . This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the last edition of Ethics, Professional Responsibility and the Lawyer was published the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 has been enacted and Rules of Conduct and Client Care replaced the Rules of Professional Conduct for Barristers and Solicitors in 2008. Consequently there have been huge changes to the field of legal ethics. This new edition incorporates these changes and the relevant jurisprudence and includes expanded analysis of associated key topics including: lawyer-client relationships and conflicts; client confidences; privacy; and duties of care. Legal ethics is a compulsory course for all New Zealand law students and an integral part of the lawyers' professional life making Ethics, Professional Responsibility and the Lawyer a must-have text for all current and aspiring lawyers.; Reflects and discusses the changes to the legal profession (and its ethical and professional responsibility requirements) with the implementation of Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (2006) and the new rules of Conduct and Client Care ; Expanded discussion of duties of client care; privacy; litigation duties and confidence; Clarification of distinctions between confidentiality and privacy; Extensive revision of sections on lawyer-client relationships especially the cab-rank rule and termination and lawyer-client conflicts
Download or read book Professional Responsibility written by Nathan M. Crystal and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Professor Nathan Crystal introduced his new approach to professional responsibility in a concise casebook organized by practice areas that encouraged students to adopt a personal philosophy, he captured the attention of students and instructors alike. Now, In a fully updated Second Edition, PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY: Problems of Practice And The Profession builds on that successful foundation to provide an engaging and enlightening analysis of the ethical issues unique To The legal profession. Crystal's concise, problem-oriented casebook challenges students to develop a philosopy of lawyering to guide them in resolving difficult questions of professional responsibility. From this framework, he takes a refreshing new look at the traditional course topics of confidentiality, loyalty, limitations on zealousness, and delivery of legal services in the context of: defense and prosecution of criminal cases civil litigation office practice government and public service To keep the book as lively as it is informative, Crystal uses: realistic and engaging problems that demonstrate actual ethical conflicts in practice lucid and concise narrative Model Rules and other standards frequent cross-references New material in PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY: Problems of Practice And The Profession, Second Edition, includes: a new chapter focusing on ethical issues facing law firms, including supervision of lawyers and other legal personnel, departing attorneys, ancillary business and multidisciplinary partnerships, And The quality of life in law firms. extensive coverage of the ALI's Restatement (Third), The Law Governing Lawyers. -new problems covering competency in criminal defense representation, privilege and work product issues in civil litigation, and electronic commerce topics. -a fully updated discussion of recent cases, statutory developments, and secondary sources.
Download or read book Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility written by Thomas D. Morgan and published by Foundation Press. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional responsibility is one of the most rapidly changing fields in American law. New rules, not just new cases, emerge each year. Covering national as well as the New York and California standards on professional responsibility, this edition collects the most up-to-date and important standards that govern judicial and legal ethics. The book provides students, faculty, the practicing bar, and judges an essential examination of the many professional responsibility issues they will confront on a daily basis.
Download or read book Professional Responsibility written by W. Bradley Wendel and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a truly balanced approach To The complex issues surrounding professional responsibility, your students will appreciate this sophisticated guide. it acknowledges the complicated interplay between the Model Rules and other law, while explaining the law clearly in the voice of a senior associate speaking to a newly hired lawyer. Professional Responsibility: Examples and Explanations is not simple march through the Model Rules. Instead, it is structured around concepts, with the rules And The generally applicable law introduced as needed: Includes the Ethics 2000 Rules, including the 2003 amendments And The Restatement of the Law governing Lawyers. Tackles difficult issues head-on, such as conflicts of interest, client fraud problems And The intersection between confidentiality And The attorney-client privilege. Includes charts, Venn diagrams and other visual aids. Draws examples from actual cases so they are representative of the problems students can expect to encounter in practice. for a complete teaching package in professional responsibility, require or recommend this new study guide for your next course.
Download or read book The Lawyer Bubble written by Steven J Harper and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noble profession is facing its defining moment. From law schools to the prestigious firms that represent the pinnacle of a legal career, a crisis is unfolding. News headlines tell part of the story—the growing oversupply of new lawyers, widespread career dissatisfaction, and spectacular implosions of pre-eminent law firms. Yet eager hordes of bright young people continue to step over each other as they seek jobs with high rates of depression, life-consuming hours, and little assurance of financial stability. The Great Recession has only worsened these trends, but correction is possible and, now, imperative. In The Lawyer Bubble, Steven J. Harper reveals how a culture of short-term thinking has blinded some of the nation’s finest minds to the long-run implications of their actions. Law school deans have ceded independent judgment to flawed U.S. News & World Report rankings criteria in the quest to maximize immediate results. Senior partners in the nation’s large law firms have focused on current profits to enhance American Lawyer rankings and individual wealth at great cost to their institutions. Yet, wiser decisions—being honest about the legal job market, revisiting the financial incentives currently driving bad behavior, eliminating the billable hour model, and more—can take the profession to a better place. A devastating indictment of the greed, shortsightedness, and dishonesty that now permeate the legal profession, this insider account is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how things went so wrong and how the profession can right itself once again.
Download or read book The Law of Law School written by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers one hundred rules that every first year law student should live by “Dear Law Student: Here’s the truth. You belong here.” Law professor Andrew Ferguson and former student Jonathan Yusef Newton open with this statement of reassurance in The Law of Law School. As all former law students and current lawyers can attest, law school is disorienting, overwhelming, and difficult. Unlike other educational institutions, law school is not set up simply to teach a subject. Instead, the first year of law school is set up to teach a skill set and way of thinking, which you then apply to do the work of lawyering. What most first-year students don’t realize is that law school has a code, an unwritten rulebook of decisions and traditions that must be understood in order to succeed. The Law of Law School endeavors to distill this common wisdom into one hundred easily digestible rules. From self-care tips such as “Remove the Drama,” to studying tricks like “Prepare for Class like an Appellate Argument,” topics on exams, classroom expectations, outlining, case briefing, professors, and mental health are all broken down into the rules that form the hidden law of law school. If you don’t have a network of lawyers in your family and are unsure of what to expect, Ferguson and Newton offer a forthright guide to navigating the expectations, challenges, and secrets to first-year success. Jonathan Newton was himself such a non-traditional student and now shares his story as a pathway to a meaningful and positive law school experience. This book is perfect for the soon-to-be law school student or the current 1L and speaks to the growing number of first-generation law students in America.
Download or read book Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law written by Lisa G. Lerman and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, Concise Fourth Edition is the briefer version of Lerman and Schrag’s highly successful problem-based textbook that offers a contemporary and thoughtful approach to challenging ethical dilemmas, encouraging deep analysis and lively class discussion. Key Features: Succinct and accessible explanation of lawyer law in question and answer format Numerous problems based on actual cases, in which students must analyze the ethical and strategic issues as if they were practicing lawyers Focus on issues that students are most likely to face in their early years of practice Stimulating presentation of materials, including cartoons, tables, and photos New to the Fourth Edition: Updates of countless recent developments in lawyer law, including the amendments to Rules 1.6, 1.18 and 8.4 Up-to-date discussions of how the Internet is affecting law practice, including the use of e-mail and social media Engaging two-color design New chapter on the changing legal profession Reorganized so that the chapters match the practice MPRE questions in Lerman, Schrag, and Gupta’s Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law: Model Rules, State Variations and Practice Questions.