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The Ethics Of Copyrighting Ethics Rules, Michael S. Ariens

Faculty Articles

The American Bar Association’s (“ABA”) practice of requiring students to purchase the Model Rules of Professional Conduct is exploitative and unethical. The ABA uses its role in training lawyers to create a situation which all but requires law students and bar applicants to purchase the organization’s own Model Rules. The fact that the Model Rules constitute a substantial revenue stream for the ABA is due less to lawyers’ desire to brush up on Model Rules of Professional Conduct, which are not laws, than to the ABA's direct role in approving law schools and its indirect role in licensing lawyers.

Law …

Critical Perspectives On The Legal Profession In England And Wales (Book Review), Susan Carle

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Book Review of DONALD NICOLSON & JULIAN WEBB, PROFESSIONAL LEGAL ETHICS: CRITICAL INTERROGATIONS, Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 292.

The Cost Of Humanitarian Assistance: Ethical Rules And The First Amendment, John P. Sahl

Akron Law Faculty Publications

For many Americans, the choice between affording legal assistance--a luxury item--and covering basic living expenses appears to represent a choice in name only. Most states prohibit lawyers from providing clients with financial assistance to cover these living expenses. In a few states, lawyers may help clients with living expenses by advancing or guaranteeing financial assistance. Given accurate information about the availability of legal services, poor people may find themselves able to protect important legal rights.

In Part I, this Article reviews the origins of and reasons for the ban on lawyer advancement of living expenses to clients when litigation is …

Bringing The Practice To The Classroom: An Approach To The Professionalism Problem, Steven H. Goldberg

Journal of Legal Education

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Competent Legal Writing - A Lawyer's Professional Responsibility, Debra R. Cohen

Journal Articles

The legal profession is constantly evolving to keep pace with our increasingly complex society.' Today, the legal profession "is larger and more diverse than ever before." Despite this transformation, "the law has remained a single profession identified with a perceived common body of learning, skills and values." This common body of learning, skills, and values constitutes the fundamental elements of competent representation. Writing is one of the essential skills of competent representation.

"Law is a profession of words." Lawyers use words, both written and oral, in a wide array of contexts-to advise, to advocate, to elicit information, to establish legal …

Professional Responsibility And Organization Of The Family Business: The Lawyer As Intermediary, Alysa Christmas Rollock

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Law and the New American Family Held at Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington Apr. 4, 1997

From "Moral Stupidity" To Professional Responsibility, Thomas D. Eisele

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

Within the context-even, the challenge-presented by the first chapter of Seymour Wishman's book, Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer, we symposiasts have been invited to say something about the teaching of courses which in law school go under the titles, "Legal Ethics," "Professional Ethics," or "Professional Responsibility." This last is the
title of a two-credit course that I teach, in what I take to be a fairly traditional form, over the span of a semester at the University of Cincinnati. In this essay, I want to talk about the teaching of such a course; not about how I manage to teach …

Encouraging Personal Responsibility - An Alternative Approach To Teaching Legal Ethics, Christine M. Venter

Journal Articles

Largely as a result of prompting by the American Bar Association ("ABA"), most American law schools now require students to take a class called Professional Responsibility or Legal Ethics before graduation.

The ABA's campaign for a renewed emphasis on ethics stems from a desire that lawyers return to the "principles of professionalism."' How law schools should go about teaching their students these principles has never been as clear, for example, as how to teach students federal taxation. Does one try merely to teach students professional responsibility by covering the rules and tenets contained in the Model Rules and Code, or …

Financial Arrangements In Class Actions, And The Code Of Professional Responsibility, Daniel J. Capra, Thomas W. Jackson, John Koeltl

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The Rules of Professional Conduct impose various restrictions relating to attorney fees and the payment of litigation costs, which are designed to preserve the lawyer's role as a zealous but objective advocate. Class actions stand apart from other kinds of litigation in that they are designed to promote efficiency by their combining like claims into single actions, and individual justice by their vindicating claims that if taken individually might not be economically viable. In light of these special concerns, the courts have carved out several exceptions to ordinary attorney's fees, litigation expense, and disbursement rules that they routinely apply to …

Doing The Right Thing: An Overview Of Teaching Professional Responsibility, Ian Johnstone, Mary Patricia Treuthart

Journal of Legal Education

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Ethical Ends And Ethical Means, Monroe H. Freedman

Journal of Legal Education

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Teaching Professional Responsibility And Professionalism In Legal Writing, Margaret Z. Johns

Journal of Legal Education

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A Pathway To Curricular Reform, Curtis J. Berger

Journal of Legal Education

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Wanted: An Ethos Of Personal Responsibility—Why Codes Of Ethics And Schools Of Law Don't Make For Ethical Lawyers, Daniel S. Kleinberger

Faculty Scholarship

This article: (1) argues that neither codes of professional ethics nor traditional modes of law school teaching do much to produce ethical lawyers; (2) asserts that ethics codes and the presuppositions of the adversary system work to alienate lawyers from a sense of individual responsibility; (3) critiques the conceptual connection between the adversary system and codes of lawyer ethics; (4) critiques the conventional approach to teaching legal ethics in law schools; (5) invokes the approach to ethical analysis championed by the German sociologist and social theorist Max Weber; and (6) explains how that approach, coupled with traditional tools of legal …

Ethos And Conscience—A Rejoinder, Daniel S. Kleinberger

Faculty Scholarship

In “Wanted: An Ethos of Personal Responsibility,” Professor Kleinberger sought to prompt debate about the moral preconceptions of the legal profession. Professor Morawetz responded in his essay, “Layers and Conscience.” This article responds, commenting on Morawetz’s arguments that (1) excessive pessimism about lawyer morality is unfounded and counterproductive; (2) the public’s antipathy toward lawyers is inevitable given the role lawyers play in our society; (3) codes of ethics can and do have an uplifting influence on the morals of lawyers; and (4) law schools can and do train moral judgment.

The Role Of Legal Education In Shaping The Profession, Harry T. Edwards

Journal of Legal Education

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Professional Responsibility, Clark D. Cunningham

Faculty Publications By Year

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Professional Responsibility - When Do The Equities Tip The Scale To Require And Attorney To Remain In A Case Without A Client, Kristine Y. Schmidt

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Client Centered Counseling And Moral Accountability For Lawyers, Robert M. Bastress

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Ethics, Morality, And Professional Responsibility, Dallin H. Oaks

BYU Law Review

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Legal Education For Professional Responsibility, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Powell Speeches

Speech before the Association of American Law Schools, Chicago, Illinois.

Book Reviews, Robert J. Levy, Ernest L. Folk Iii, Daniel G. Partan, Walter E. Oberer

Journal of Legal Education

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Ethics - Client-Attorney Personal Relationship Test, Aldine J. Coffman

William & Mary Law Review

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Book Reviews, Abraham S. Goldstein, Ivan C. Rutledge, Paul W. Bruton, Sheldon Tefft, Frank D. Emerson, William F. Willier, Forrest W. Lacey, Edward F. C. Mcgonagle

Journal of Legal Education

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Book Reviews, Daniel H. Pollitt, Dale W. Broeder, George M. Joseph, Robert E. Mathews, W. H. Howery, Brendan F. Brown, Ilmar Tammelo, W. Paul Gormley, Chester James Antieau, Albert I. Kegan, Delmar Karlen, Albert A. Ehrenzweig

Journal of Legal Education

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Book Reviews, Alan R. Bromberg, Albert A. Ehrenzweig, R. W. Fleming, William E. Hogan, David A. Bookstaver, Andrew V. Clements

Journal of Legal Education

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