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Professional Responsibility

  • Semester: Fall 2021
  • Course ID: 385
  • Credit Hours: 3
  • Unique: 29420

Course Information

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

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Reversed priority

Meeting Times

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Evaluation Method

Type Date Time Location
Final exam December 14, 2021 8:30 am A-Z in 2.137

Description

This class will be taught 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 *
Lerman, Lisa G. and Schrag, Philip G.
Wolters Kluwer , edition: 4
ISBN: 978-1-4548-9128-4
The Law Governing Lawyers : Model Rules, Standards, Statutes, and State Lawyer Rules of Professional Conduct, 2021-2022 *
Martyn, Susan R., Fox, Lawrence J., and Wendel, W. Bradley
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
ISBN: 978-1-5438-4151-0

Instructors

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Important Class Changes

Date Updated
10/29/2021 Exam information updated
Room(s) changed