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Screen Verité: Do Rules About Ethical Screens Reflect The Truth About Real-Life Law Firm Practice?, Lee A. Pizzimenti

University of Miami Law Review

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Whose Lawyer Are You Anyway?, Thomas D. Morgan

William Mitchell Law Review

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Ethics, Professionalism, And Meaningful Work, William H. Simon

Hofstra Law Review

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Less Is More: Teaching Legal Ethics In Context Symposium: 1997 W. M. Mikeck Foundation Forum On The Teaching Of Legal Ethics, Bruce A. Green

Faculty Scholarship

We who teach legal ethics employ many of the teacher's arts to win our students' appreciation for the course. We do not always succeed. As Deborah Rhode has observed, "[t]here are inherent problems and infinite ways to fail in teaching this subject." Yet, we continue to seek a method for teaching the course effectively. If nothing else, our efforts have led to the development of a substantial body of literature on teaching legal ethics to which this Article will contribute. Its focus is on what, rather than how, to teach. This Article asks: What should be the content of the …

Supreme Court Pronouncements On The Conduct Of Lawyers, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Class Action Against Class Counsel, Susan P. Koniak

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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The Year: 2075, The Product: Law, Stephen Gillers

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Searching For New "Particles" In The Law Of Lawyering: Recent Developments In The Attribution Of "Clienthood", Theodore J. Schneyer

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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The Vaporous And The Real In Former-Client Conflicts, Charles W. Wolfram

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Life And Death Lawyering: Dignity In The Absence Of Autonomy, Teresa Stanton Collett

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Professionalism In Perspective: Alternative Approaches To Nonlawyer Practice, Deborah L. Rhode

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Diagnosis And Prescription: Illusory Lawyer Disiplinary Reform And The Need For A Moratorium, Burnele Venable Powell

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Thinking Globally: Will National Borders Matter To Lawyers A Century From Now?, Mary C. Daly

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Supreme Court Pronouncements On The Conduct Of Lawyers, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Rules, Story And Commitment In The Teaching Of Legal Ethics, Roger C. Cramton, Susan P. Koniak

Faculty Scholarship

The ABA requires each "approved" law school to provide each student "instruction in the duties and responsibilities of the legal profession." First adopted in August, 1973, in the midst of the Watergate disclosures, this requirement has never been interpreted and is infrequently referred to or enforced in the accreditation process. The professional responsibility requirement is the only substantive teaching requirement imposed by the ABA.

Should the ethics teaching requirement be scrapped? We consider that question in Part I. Although we ultimately conclude the rule should be maintained, we believe this fundamental question must be asked. Given the disdain many legal …

The Model Rules Of Professional Conduct: The ‘Pro’ And The ‘Con’, Paula Hannaford-Agor, John M. Levy, Thomas E. Spahn

Popular Media

The Special Committee of the Virginia State Bar to Study the Virginia Code of Professional Responsibility was established by former president Ed Burnette during his administration in 1993. The Committee was requested to examine the Code in its entirety and to suggest any revisions and additions to indi­vidual disciplinary rules. The committee is comprised of prac­titioners with a wide range of civil and criminal expertise, and representatives from academia. After extensive work and discussion. the committee unanimously decided to recommend the adoption of the format of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, which, among other features, provides for an …

Ethical Commitments, Anthony V. Alfieri

Articles

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Legal Ethics And The Struggle Of Native Americans, Harry Lee Anstead

St. Thomas Law Review

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Why Hard Cases Make Good (Clinical) Law, Paul D. Reingold

Articles

In 1992, when the University of California's Hastings College of Law decided to offer a live-client clinic for the first time, its newly hired director had to make several decisions about what form the program should take.1 The first question for the director was whether the clinic should be a single-issue specialty clinic or a general clinic that would represent clients across several areas of the law. The second question, and the one that will be the focus of this essay, was whether the program should restrict its caseload to "easy" routine cases or also accept non-routine, less controllable litigation. …

Comment On Moliterno, Legal Education, Experiential Education, And Professional Responsibility, Lance Liebman

Faculty Scholarship

In attempting to predict and prescribe the future, my vision of the recent history of legal education differs from Professor Moliterno's in certain relevant ways.

I graduated from Law School in 1967. I learned largely through doctrinal courses that delivered steady training in thinking like a lawyer and information about areas of law. These courses exposed me and my classmates to legal lingo and to the standard types of legal arguments. We learned, largely by hearing the teacher and our fellow students, to make verbal moves and to see the strengths and limitations of others' argumentation skills and techniques. We …

Redefining The Professional In Professional Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Teaching Professionalism, David B. Wilkins

Law and Contemporary Problems

For the last three years, the Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession has been exploring the contemporary meaning of professionalism and developing new ways to impart the best aspects of this normative understanding to students. Wilkins reports on an intensive course involving both law students and medical students entitled "Ethical Dilemmas in Clinical Practice: Physicians and Lawyers in Dialogue."

Information Technology And Legal Ethics: Expanding The Teaching And Understanding Of Legal Ethics Through The Creation Of A New Generation Of Electronic Reference Materials, Roger C. Cramton, Peter W. Martin

Law and Contemporary Problems

Cramton and Martin present a very brief summary of the inward-looking elements of the Cornell Law School prorgam to improve the basic required course in professional ethics and to encourage the pervasive teaching of the subject throughout the law curriculum. The Cornell program focuses on the preparation and dissemination of electronic material on legal ethics on a state-by-state basis.

Seeing The Forest And The Trees: The Proper Role Of The Bankruptcy Attorney, Nancy B. Rapoport

Indiana Law Journal

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Ethics Education In The First Year: An Experiment, Stephen Mcg. Bundy

Law and Contemporary Problems

Bundy presents an account of the University of California at Berkeley's School of Law's experiment with teaching the required professional responsibility course in the first year. During this experiment, the faculty members involved in the course developed a strong set of teaching materials and a strong commitment to teaching from those materials.

Contextualizing Professional Responsibility: A New Curriculum For A New Century, Mary C. Daly, Bruce A. Green, Russell G. Pearce

Law and Contemporary Problems

Daly et al assert that professional responsibility has matured as a subject matter to the point where a new genre of courses should join the pervasive method and the traditional survey course. The new age of professaional responsibility will reflect intellectual maturity through the introduction of contextual course that are designed to nurture the development of reflective ethical judgment.

Integrating Theory And Practice Into The Professional Responsibility Curriculum At The University Of Texas, John S. Dzienkowski, Sanford Levinson, Charles Silver, Amon Burton

Law and Contemporary Problems

Teaching ethics to large classes has always proved to be a great challenge for those who teach professional responsibility at the University of Texas. A new program at the University of Texas to improve the professional responsibility curriculum is discussed.

Professional Responsibility As A Lawyering Skill, Michael E. Wolfson

Law and Contemporary Problems

Little has been done to teach professional responsibility in a way that provides students with more than a mere sampling of rules and principles. In an attempt to move Beyond mere tinkering with the way professional responsibility is taught, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles restructured the way it taught the subject by creating a class that fully integrated ethics and lawyering skills into a single required course.

New Horizons In The Role Of Law Schools In Teaching Legal Ethics, Robert F. Drinan

Law and Contemporary Problems

Legal Ethics became a required course in the late 1970s; however, the requirement of this course both helped and hindered the development of the status of legal ethics as a respected discipline. The role of law schools in teaching legal ethics is explored.

Annotated Bibliography Of Educational Materials On Legal Ethics, Deborah L. Rhode

Law and Contemporary Problems

Rhode presents an annotated bibliography that includes references to written and audiovisual materials for legal ethics courses and curricular integration projects.

An Authentic Life In The Law: A Tribute To James K. Logan, Irma S. Russell

Faculty Works

UMKC School of Law Professor Irma S. Russell reflects on the professional life and legacy of Judge James K. Logan, exploring his career as a model of integrity, intellect, and dedication to justice. Through the lens of her experiences as his former law clerk, Russell examines broader questions about what constitutes a meaningful and ethical life in the legal profession. Blending biography, personal reflection, and professional critique, Russell argues that authenticity in law arises from commitment to community, ethical responsibility, and the pursuit of the common good.