Professional Responsibility and Ethics

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Covers the many aspects of the law that governs lawyers and does not include an encyclopedic analysis of every ethical rule, nor the entire body of law governing the legal profession. It focuses primarily on the subjects that are most likely to arise during the first years of an individual’s law practice.

An annual publication, this title includes coverage of numerous developments in legal ethics including pronouncements from the American Bar Association, state and federal courts, and state bar associations.
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Contents include defining and protecting the attorney-client relationship, ethics of legal fees, conflicts of interest, ethics in advocacy, issues in criminal prosecutions, negotiation, judges, and reducing professional failure, and marketing.

Explains the New York Rules of Professional Conduct and related sources regulating lawyers, including phrase-by-phrase analysis of each rule, summaries of related ethics opinions and cases, historical context, underlying policies, and practical advice, new developments; cases and ethics opinions and historical background.
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The treatise's position is that lawyers' ethics is rooted in the Bill of Rights and in the autonomy and the dignity of the individual. This traditionalist, client-centered view of the lawyer’s role in an adversary system corresponds to the ethical standards that are held by a large proportion of the practicing bar.

The work is directed to students who have to pass both a law school exam in a Legal Ethics course as well as the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE). There are pages of text, numerous outlines, bullet points, sample essay questions and answers, and mini-checklists to learn the basics and fine points of Professional Responsibility.

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Includes material that the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination requires. It digests the Model Rules in an historic context including prior versions of the Rules and analyzes the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, Third.

As the legal profession undergoes structural changes, longstanding principles of ethics still govern the day-to-day lives of practicing lawyers. This hornbook covers systemic changes and examines the fundamentals of lawyer and judicial ethics.

Written for law students, the book provides a straightforward treatment of the subject, with special attention to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and all recent amendments to those rules through the date of publication. For each topic, the book briefly addresses any relevant rationales, but primarily focuses on explaining the parameters of the applicable standards in a ste-by-step manner,
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Integrates current events, cases, and practical issues, with a problem-centered focus. It addresses attorney impairments (including alcoholism, substance abuse, and depression) and client impairments (including diminished capacity), age bias and references to overriding unconscious bias.

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.