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Professional responsibility

Selected Works

2009

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Reconstructing A Pedagogy Of Responsibility, Barbara Bezdek Aug 2009

Reconstructing A Pedagogy Of Responsibility, Barbara Bezdek

Barbara L Bezdek

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Federal Rule Of Evidence 502: Stirring The State Law Of Privilege And Professional Responsibility With A Federal Stick, Henry Noyes Dec 2008

Federal Rule Of Evidence 502: Stirring The State Law Of Privilege And Professional Responsibility With A Federal Stick, Henry Noyes

Henry S. Noyes

Federal Rule of Evidence 502 was signed into law by President Bush on September 19, 2008. It is the last piece of the puzzle of e-discovery amendments. Rule 502 quietly takes the first steps toward federalization of two areas of law that traditionally have been subject to state regulation: The law governing waiver of the attorney-client privilege and the law governing an attorney's duties of professional conduct. This Article focuses on Rule 502(d) - the heart of this new Federal Rule of Evidence. This subsection permits a federal court to issue an order that protects against waiver of the attorney-client …

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Fair Process And Fair Play: Professionally Responsible Cross-Examination, John F. Nivala Dec 2008

Fair Process And Fair Play: Professionally Responsible Cross-Examination, John F. Nivala

John F. Nivala

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A Rose By Any Other Name? Enhancing Professionalism Through Cultural Competency, Jan L. Jacobowitz Ms. Dec 2008

A Rose By Any Other Name? Enhancing Professionalism Through Cultural Competency, Jan L. Jacobowitz Ms.

Jan L Jacobowitz

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A Survey Of Professional Responsibility Courses At American Law Schools In 2009, Laurel S. Terry, Andrew Perlman, Margaret Raymond Dec 2008

A Survey Of Professional Responsibility Courses At American Law Schools In 2009, Laurel S. Terry, Andrew Perlman, Margaret Raymond

Laurel S. Terry

This short article summarizes the results of a survey about the teaching of legal ethics in U.S. law schools. In Spring 2009, under the leadership of its Chair Laurel Terry and Executive Committee Members Andy Perlman and Margaret Raymond, the AALS [Association of American Law Schools] Section on Professional Responsibility circulated a survey to learn more about how professional responsibility is taught at American law schools. A link to the online survey, which was directed to legal ethics teachers nationwide, was emailed to AALS Professional Responsibility Section members and publicized elsewhere. We received 105 responses from at least 77 different …

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The Dilemma Of The Vengeful Client: A Prescriptive Framework For Cooling The Flames Of Anger, Robin Slocum Dec 2008

The Dilemma Of The Vengeful Client: A Prescriptive Framework For Cooling The Flames Of Anger, Robin Slocum

Robin Slocum

Lawyers are presented with a challenging dilemma when counseling angry clients who seek to use the legal system as a weapon for vengeance. Legal scholars have argued that lawyers should, where appropriate, dissuade their angry clients from litigation strategies that are immoral or arguably unethical. However, angry clients are remarkably resistant to appeals based on morality and reason. Thus, it is not surprising that lawyers have been largely ineffective in their efforts to dissuade angry clients from using the legal system as a battlefield. Instead, lawyers often reluctantly defer to clients whose judgment is impaired by their emotional reactivity.

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