Professional Responsibility

by Wendel, W. Bradley

• ISBN13: 9780735562448
• ISBN10: 073556244X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-12
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Summary

Now in its Second Edition, Professional Responsibility: Examples and Explanations continues to be an appropriate ancillary source for students in any Professional Responsibility course. Not only does it utilize the proven pedagogy of the E&E series, but it is a completely comprehensive and well-balanced text. This problem-oriented guide is not a simple march through the Model Rules. Instead, it is structured around concepts, with rules and the generally applicable law introduced as needed. This edition retains the great features that made it a dependable source for students in its First Edition: covers the entire law governing lawyersincludes agency, fiduciary duty, tort, contract, constitutional, and corporate and securities law.applies concepts and introduces the generally applicable law as needed, avoiding a narrow focus on the Model Rulessupplements textual discussions with examples that work through progressively more complex issuesuses both text and problems to break the analysis down into stepspresents a balanced approach to controversial issuesoffers an accessible, conversational styledraws examples from actual cases, so they are representative of the problems students can expect to encounter in practiceincorporates the new sources of law (ABAs Ethics 2000 Initiative, Restatement of Law Governing Lawyers, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) organically, rather than as add-ons Carefully revised in its Second Edition, this fully up-to-date source:integrates carefully and thoughtfully updated cases, ethics opinions, and problemsemphasizes the newest versions of the ABA rules, while retaining information about the older rules where necessary An author website to support classroom instruction using this title is available at http://www.aspenlawschool.com/wendel2