Professional Responsibility in Focus [Connected eBook with Study Center]

by Sahl, John P.; Cassidy, R. Michael; Cooper, Benjamin P.; Tarkington, Margaret C.

• ISBN13: 9798892074940
• ISBN10: 8892074946
• eBook ISBN(s): 9798892074957
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-05-14
• Publisher: Aspen Publishing
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Summary

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Professional Responsibility in Focus provides a user-friendly, problem-based approach to learning the law governing the legal profession, covering subjects including the attorney-client relationship, competence, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, the lawyer as an advocate, special issues in criminal practice, issues concerning the delivery of legal services in general, access to justice and judicial ethics.

This exceptional casebook offers a comprehensive, updated exposition of the law governing lawyers and judges, incorporating new caselaw and other recent developments. Real-world scenarios throughout the text provide students numerous opportunities for students to apply what they have learned and solidify their understanding of important concepts.

New to the Third Edition:
● Several new cases, recent ABA Advisory Opinions, and other developments --such as the ABA’s amended rule on lawyer withdrawal (Model Rule 1.16) -- in an expanded, practice-oriented text with new and revised footnotes
● Additional Materials on Professional Identity Formation to comply with ABA Standard 303(b)
● Multiple state acceptance of alternative pathways to practice (i.e., apprenticeship)
● Discipline of Rudolph Giuliani for frivolous claims relating to the 2020 election
● Crime Fraud exception to attorney client privilege relating to legal counsel to President Donald J. Trump
● ABA Formal Opinion 510 (methods for gathering information from prospective clients to avoid future conflicts of interest)
● ABA Formal Opinion 494 (conflicts and advertising issues in attorney office sharing arrangements)
● Substantial material added to the first chapter defining and exploring professional identity
● Highlighting regulatory changes in some states that allow for experimentation with multidisciplinary practice and alternative business structures
● Focus on changes in technology (particularly artificial intelligence) that may pose partial solutions to the access to justice gap, while creating new problems and issues in the areas of client confidentiality and billing practices
● Increased attention paid to recent scandals in the fields of judicial ethics and government attorney ethics

Professors and students will benefit from:
● Clear and concise coverage of the attorney-client relationship, competence, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and more
● Key Concepts at the start of each chapter and Chapter Summaries at the end of each chapter facilitate study and review
● Case Previews and Post Case Follow-Ups that frame each case, writing clarifies the rules and aid in student understanding
● An introduction to the legal profession
● Real Life Applications and Applying the Rules exercises challenge students to apply what they have learned to realistic hypothetical scenarios
● Updates to Chapter One, on the moral responsibility of lawyers, that provides context for understanding and situating the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility covered in the chapters that follow.
● 12-chapter organization is easily adapted to two or three-credit courses

Table of Contents

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO THE LEGAL PROFESSION
Chapter 1.    The Role and Responsibility of Lawyers
Chapter 2.    The Regulation of the Legal Profession

PART II: THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP   
Chapter 3.     The Attorney-Client Relationship
Chapter 4.     Competence —The Lawyer’s Indispensable Duty
Chapter 5.     Confidentiality, the Attorney-Client Privilege, and Work-Product Immunity
Chapter 6.     Conflicts of Interest

PART III: LAWYER AS ADVOCATE   
Chapter 7. Fairness in Adjudication
Chapter 8. Special Ethical Issues in Criminal Practice

PART IV: DELIVERY OF LEGAL SERVICES AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE   
Chapter 9.    Practicing Law: Issues in Group Lawyering and the Unauthorized Practice of Law
Chapter 10.    Marketing Legal Services
Chapter 11.    Access to Justice and Pro Bono Services

PART V: THE JUDICIARY
Chapter 12. Judicial Ethics

Table of Cases 
Table of Rules 
Index