Professional Responsibility: Print Resources

An authoritative and practical guide to the resolution of ethical problems encountered by members of the legal profession.

This comprehensive volume on professional ethics gives you current information from a variety of sources. It is effectively organized around the American Bar Association's Model Rules, which many states have adopted, and the ABA's Judicial Code. This reference combines Rotunda and Dzienkowski's thorough understanding of the current ethical climate, with the authors' all-encompassing commentary and discussions, and references to the American Law Institute's new Restatement of the Law - Law Governing Lawyers. It also contains up-to-date case law references.

A comprehensive five-volume guide to the professional liability of the lawyer.

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 new 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 conflicts of interest, multi-disciplinary practice, and the attorney-client evidentiary and ethical privilege. The Ethics Rules are law typically adopted by court rule in the same way that the Rules of Civil Procedure are law. These Ethics Rules are just as complex as the Civil Practice Rules or the Evidence Rules. Many of the Ethics Rules cannot be known through some sort of innate or hereditary awareness automatically infused in ordinary human beings once they are admitted to the bar. Unless a student wants to emulate those lawyers who draw a disproportionate number of malpractice suits, he or she will need to understand the law of Legal Ethics. And to do that, one needs this book.

This volume includes the Annotated American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct, selected state modifications to the ABA Model Rules, the 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, 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 affect the legal profession.

A comprehensive guide to the law governing the operation of law firms, with a discussion of such topics as the formation of the law firm, the law governing professional corporations, selection of the firm name, solicitation, operations, professional liability, dissolution, resignation, and retirement.

This essential book shows how to approach concrete problems that arise in everyday practice while staying within the letter and spirit of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. It provides the full text of each Model Rule provision in sequence, followed by the authors' guidance and commentary, which put the rule into context, help identify its key features, and show its relation to other Rules and the ALI's Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers. Clear, realistic examples demonstrate how each Rule applies in practice. Substantially revised to reflect the recent revisions of to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the handbook reflects the latest developments in the law governing lawyer conduct, not only lawyer discipline, but also legal malpractice, suits for breach of fiduciary duty, fee-dispute litigation and fee forfeiture, and disqualification of counsel for conflict of interest.

Many law professors aim to probe deep ethical issues in class. But they need to cover the material that the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination requires. The Rotunda Nutshell fulfils that need as it digests the Model Rules in an engaging, analytical, and often critical way. In a surprisingly pithy manner, this book places the Rules in an historic context that lets the student understand problems with prior versions of the Rules and the Model Code. The Nutshell also analyzes the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, Third. This approach frees up precious class time for important normative issues. And, this Nutshell helps your students come up with better answers to your Socratic questions than you anticipated.

Mastering Professional Responsibility achieves the goal of the entire Mastering series by presenting a concise yet understandable explanation of the rules and concepts of lawyer professional responsibility.The author's straightforward treatment of the subject makes the book easy to use and extraordinarily helpful in simplifying complex issues. This book is designed to be a secondary source for students enrolled in a law school professional responsibility course. The book discusses the rules and concepts covered in the typical professional responsibility course in a step-by-step manner, replete with simple examples in which the rules and concepts are applied. These are also the rules and concepts tested by the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam which is a requirement for admission for most states. Thus, the book is a good preparatory tool for that test as well as being an excellent aid for the law school course.

ABA Model Rules and Model Code: Lawyers and the Legal Profession: The World of Lawyers' Regulation of Lawyers and the Legal Profession; Professional Discipline of Lawyers; Lawyers and Clients: Client-Lawyer Relationship; Lawyer Competence; Lawyers as Client Confidants; Conflict of Interest; Special Conflicts of Interest Topics; Client-Lawyer Contracts; The Role of Lawyers: Adversary System; Lawyers as Advocates; Lawyer Forensics; Lawyers as Counselors; Delivery of Legal Services: Need for a Lawyer; Right to Practice Law; Forms and Funding of Law Practice.

An appropriate ancillary for students in any Professional Responsibility course. Not only does it have the proven pedagogy of the E&E series, but it is completely comprehensive and well balanced.

Understand better what you're learning in Professional Responsibility class and prepare effectively for exams by applying concepts as you learn them. This study guide includes 160 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of 48 questions comprising a comprehensive "practice exam."

For each multiple-choice question, Professor Longan provides a detailed answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains thoroughly why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question is designed to be answered in fifteen minutes or less. For these questions, Professor Longan provides a thoughtful, comprehensive, yet brief model answer.

The Siegel's Series works through key topics in a Q&A format, providing an additional source for self-quizzing. A proven resource for high performance, titles in this exam-prep series contain essay questions with model answers, as well as multiple-choice questions and answers. Siegel's Series Features: All titles newly revised and updated, Multiple-choice questions with answers, Essay questions with model answers. Available for all major subjects. Great for exam prep.

This Understanding treatise presents a systematic position on lawyers' ethics. The authors argue 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.

From this perspective, the authors of Understanding Lawyers' Ethics analyze the fundamental issues of lawyers' ethics, and particularly the ABA's Model Rules and Model Code. Even if students do not share the authors' viewpoint, they can benefit from this presentation because it challenges them to appreciate the underlying reasons for the position presented. This treatise is designed to facilitate a real understanding of legal rules as distinguished from a superficial familiarity with them by challenging the reader to test their understanding of the legal rules against the reader's own moral standards and reasoned judgment.