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Professional Responsibility

  • Semester: Fall 2020
  • Course ID: 385
  • Credit Hours: 3
  • Unique: 28290

Course Information

  • Grading Method: Pass/Fail Not Allowed
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Reversed priority

Meeting Times

Day Time Location
TUE, WED, THU 2:40 - 3:30 pm ONLINE

Evaluation Method

Type Date Time Location
Final exam (administered by Exam4) December 9, 2020

Description

This course will be taught entirely online via Zoom. 

Professional Responsibility is about the law that governs lawyers.  We will explore the relationship between lawyers and clients; the protection of client confidences;representing organizational clients; conflicts of interest; duties to courts; and duties to adversaries and third persons.  We will also discuss the provision of legal services and the evolving business of law. The course fulfills the professional responsibility requirement for graduation and helps you prepare for the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE).  

Textbooks ( * denotes required )

Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, Concise Fourth Edition *
Lerman & Schrag
Wolters Kluwer , edition: Concise Fourth Edition
ISBN: 978-1-4548-9128-4
The Law Governing Lawyers: Model Rules, Standards, Statutes, and State-Lawyer Rules of Professional Conduct *
Martyn, Fox, & Wendel
Wolters Kluwer , edition: Latest Edition

Instructors

Headshot of McCown, F Scott McCown, F Scott
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Important Class Changes

Date Updated
11/16/2020 Exam information updated