Professional Responsibility

Book Description
Provides detailed information on professional and personal responsibilities of the lawyer. Also provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point study. Part of the University Casebook Series®, it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases.

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Associate, University of Illinois


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Part 1 of this casebook is organized around the relationship between clients and their lawyers. Part II explores multiple relationships such as the client and society, client and political superior, successive clients, partners, and concurrent relationships. Students reading Parts I and II will discover how the relationships discussed therein can create ethical problems and how lawyer conduct can help solve those problems or make them worse. Part III is organized around the tribunal as paradigm and the problems arising when lawyers and clients interact with adjudicative bodies. Part IV focuses on lawyers' cooperation with the system and ethical implications of lawyers' and judges' work with in a larger political framework. In reading and discussing the materials in Part IV, students will begin to understand the role of lawyers in implementing a society's political objectives, whether those objectives encompass the pluralistic democracy Tocqueville envisioned in America envisioned in America or the genocidal dictatorship that flourished the Nazi Germany. Analytically distinct, each part overlaps with every other part.


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