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Estates and Trusts

Paula A Monopoli

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Contemporary Trusts And Estates: An Experiential Approach (2nd Ed)., Susan Gary, Jerome Borison, Naomi Cahn, Paula Monopoli Nov 2014

Contemporary Trusts And Estates: An Experiential Approach (2nd Ed)., Susan Gary, Jerome Borison, Naomi Cahn, Paula Monopoli

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Contemporary Trusts and Estates: An Experiential Approach uses cases and statutory materials, along with exercises and problems, to integrate legal analysis and practice skills. Consistent with the Carnegie Report‘s call for more practice skills, it includes exercises in document drafting, role-playing, and letter writing to clients.


Contemporary Approaches To Trusts And Estates, Susan Gary, Jerome Borison, Naomi Cahn, Paula Monopoli Nov 2011

Contemporary Approaches To Trusts And Estates, Susan Gary, Jerome Borison, Naomi Cahn, Paula Monopoli

Paula A Monopoli

This book uses cases and statutory materials along with exercises and problems to integrate legal analysis and practice skills. The book can be used in a three- or four-credit course with or without the exercises, and sample syllabi are included in the Teacher’s Manual.


Contemporary Approaches To Trusts And Estates, Susan N. Gary, Jerome Borison, Naomi R. Cahn, Paula A. Monopoli Sep 2011

Contemporary Approaches To Trusts And Estates, Susan N. Gary, Jerome Borison, Naomi R. Cahn, Paula A. Monopoli

Paula A Monopoli

This book uses cases and statutory materials along with exercises and problems to integrate legal analysis and practice skills. The book can be used in a three- or four-credit course with or without the exercises, and sample syllabi are included in the Teacher’s Manual.


Drafting Attorneys As Fiduciaries: Fashioning An Optimal Ethical Rule For Conflicts Of Interest, Paula A. Monopoli Sep 2008

Drafting Attorneys As Fiduciaries: Fashioning An Optimal Ethical Rule For Conflicts Of Interest, Paula A. Monopoli

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The American Bar Association recently revised the ethical rules that govern lawyers. Its Ethics 2000 Commission proposed a number of changes to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, including revisions to the rules that affect how the profession handles conflicts of interest in the area of attorneys who draft instruments that name themselves as fiduciaries. The intersection of these changes, with their subsequent clarification by an ABA opinion issued in May 2002, has broad implications for attorneys practicing in this area. Given the increasing elderly population, the trillions of dollars that they are transferring to their baby-boomer children, and the …