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Legal ethics

Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

Selected Works

2007

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Delaware Legal Ethics, American Legal Ethics Library, Lawrence Hamermesh, Louise Hill Feb 2009

Delaware Legal Ethics, American Legal Ethics Library, Lawrence Hamermesh, Louise Hill

Louise L Hill

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Delaware Legal Ethics, American Legal Ethics Library, Lawrence Hamermesh, Louise Hill Dec 2006

Delaware Legal Ethics, American Legal Ethics Library, Lawrence Hamermesh, Louise Hill

Lawrence A. Hamermesh

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The Ethical Obligations Of Lawyers, Law Students And Law Professors Telling Stories On Web Logs, Anna Hemingway Dec 2006

The Ethical Obligations Of Lawyers, Law Students And Law Professors Telling Stories On Web Logs, Anna Hemingway

Anna P. Hemingway

This article examines how blogging has developed and considers the ethics of blogging and its impact on the legal profession. It examines blog entries from lawyers, law professors and law students and suggests that the rules of the Bar may be colliding with the manner of online storytelling occurring by legal professionals. The article takes an in-depth look at how blogging has impacted legal education and the relationship between faculty and students. It proposes ways in which incorporating blogging assignments into law school courses can assist students in developing ethical story-telling on web logs.

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Teaching Professional Responsibility And Ethics, Ronald D. Rotunda Dec 2006

Teaching Professional Responsibility And Ethics, Ronald D. Rotunda

Ronald D. Rotunda

This article discusses the development of teaching legal ethics in light of the changes in the ethics rules over the years. The thesis is that many ethics rules reflect the needs of a cartel (the legal profession) to protect itself, rather than the need to protect the clients of lawyers. The author uses stories and examples to illustrate this thesis.

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A 'How To' Guide For Incorporating Global And Comparative Perspectives Into The Required Professional Responsibility Course, Laurel S. Terry Dec 2006

A 'How To' Guide For Incorporating Global And Comparative Perspectives Into The Required Professional Responsibility Course, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

This article was written for an AALS symposium on "Teaching Legal Ethics" and discusses how to incorporate global and comparative perspectives into the required Professional Responsibility course. The scope of the paper is much broader, however. The first half of the paper explains why global and comparative perspectives are relevant to contemporary law practice. This section explains why global perspectives are relevants to clients and lawyers and explains why lawyer regulators now use a more global approach to regulation than previously. The second half illustrates how one can introduce global and comparative perspectives into a professional responsibility course without taking …

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Remembering Robert J. Drinan, S.J., Ronald D. Rotunda Dec 2006

Remembering Robert J. Drinan, S.J., Ronald D. Rotunda

Ronald D. Rotunda

Robert F. Drinan had a varied and full legal career, as ordained Jesuit priest, Dean of Boston College Law School, U.S. Congressman, Professor at Georgetown U. Law School, and author of many books and articles. This article summarizes his life and his contributions to legal scholarship, including, in particular, his founding of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics.

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