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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. The standards include the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, The American Lawyer's Code of Conduct, California Rules of Professional Con [...].  |
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This book is a collection of true stories about lawyers who broke the rules ended up being sued for malpractice, disbarred, or prosecuted. Intended as supplemental reading for students in professional responsibility, ethics, or lawyering classes, it contains stories that come directly from the courtroom, revealing the gritty realities of lawyers in trouble. Each narrative was selected by several criteria: whether it raised significant issues of legal ethics; whether it would lend itself to good classroom discussion; and whether there was an interesting tale to be drawn from the trial record. The stories make fascinating and memorable reading and are [...].  |
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This volume includes the Annotated American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct, selected state modifications to the ABA Model Rules, California Rules of Professional Conduct, New York's Code of Professional Responsibility, the 2001 version of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility, ABA Canons of Professional Ethics, the Restatement of the Law Third The Law Governing Lawyers, the ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct (2008), the federal rules of judicial conduct and judicial disability proceedings, the ABA Code of Judicial Conduct (1972), and rules of evidence and procedure that affec [...].  |
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Continuing the tradition that has made it a leader in its field, this casebook uses problems to provide an overview of lawyers' professional responsibility. One of the most rapidly changing fields in American law, professional responsibility sees new issues, rules and cases each year, all of which are covered in this book. The Eleventh Edition has been carefully designed to be familiar to long time users, and accessible to new ones. It continues its tradition of offering the most usable and up-to-date course materials to teach legal ethics and the law governing the practice of law. Since the last edition, published in 2008, there have been: substantial [...].  |
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Ethics and Professional Responsibility for Paralegals provides complete coverage of legal ethics tailored to the needs of the practicing paralegal. Now in its fifth edition, Therese Cannon's authoritative and highly successful textbook continues to provide paralegal students with invaluable insights into the ethical principles they will face in practice. Among the attributes that make this text so effective: comprehensive coverage of all the major areas of legal ethics, placing special emphasis on how the rules affect paralegals authoritative presentation combined with clear and readable text and effective pedagogy. Each chapter begins with an ove [...].  |
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AmeriBar's study guide for the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE). The outline covers the substantive law for all of the topics that are set forth by the National Conference of Bar Examiners as testable on the MPRE. Topics include the client-lawyer relationship, regulation of the legal profession, client confidentiality, competence, independent professional judgment, litigation and other forms of advocacy, communications, judicial ethics, and more.  |
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This book on legal ethics is the premier text that examines the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the ABA Code of Judicial Conduct, the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, and the case law. The book is analytical, concise, and thorough. Empirical studies show that many lawyers are unaware of even basic information about legal ethics, the law governing lawyers. Older lawyers, who draw a disproportionate number of malpractice suits, often have neither formally studied ethics nor kept up with developments in the law. Many malpractice suits arise out of ethics violations, such as disqualification of lawyers for conflic [...].  |
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Appropriate for courses in ethics for paralegals, legal assistants, or legal secretaries at the undergraduate level. Also appropriate as a supplement in an Introduction to Law course or an in-house training program. Top Ten Rules for Paralegals presents a straightforward upbeat approach to developing an understanding of professional responsibility in the field of law. Common everyday ethical issues in the real world of law are discussed in a conversational "plan English" style designed to make concepts more accessible and interesting for the student. Specifically designed for today's paralegal students, Top Ten Rules was written by a leading authority [...].  |
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Traversing the Ethical Minefield: Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Second Edition , presents concise coverage of a wide range of ethical issues through a vital and dynamic pedagogy that engages student interest and fuels class discussion. A fresh approach to teaching legal ethics and professional responsibility, featuring: a wide range of coverage in a concise volume innovative pedagogy that combines problems, cases, exposition, and thematic notes original mini-law review notes organized around recurring themes lawyers' roles in representing clients the law governing lawyers the bounds of the law practice pointers lawyers and o [...].  |
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The Second Edition of Ethical Lawyering retains the strengths of the First Edition, with a continued focus on the complexities of the law and ethics rules governing lawyers as reflected in the modern case law, the most recent ABA Model Rules and state variations, and ABA and state ethics opinions. An ideal length for a two or three-credit course in professional responsibility, this casebook provides comprehensive yet streamlined coverage of a subject as challenging as any in the law school curriculum. Straightforward chapter organization and a clearly-written Teachers Manual give teachers maximum flexibility in making coverage choices.  |
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Continuing the tradition that has made it a leader in its field, this casebook uses problems to provide an overview of lawyers' professional responsibility. One of the most rapidly changing fields in American law, professional responsibility sees new issues, rules and cases each year, all of which are covered in this book. The Tenth Edition has been carefully designed to be familiar to long time users, and accessible to new ones. It continues its tradition of offering the most usable and up-to-date course materials to teach legal ethics and the law governing the practice of law. Despite maintaining its familiar structure, the treatise covers all current [...].  |
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Top Ten Rules for Paralegals provides an upbeat approach to understanding professional responsibility in the field of law. Using a straightforward style, it discusses common ethical issues in the real world of law and asks students to reflect on their own personal beliefs. With a focus on research, it encourages students to find the Rules of Professional Conduct for their own state and think critically about ethical issues with those rules in mind. This edition also includes new research assignments that reinforce how to find answers to ethical questions and deal with issues on the job.  |