Traversing the Ethical Minefield Problems, Law, and Professional Responsibility [Connected eBook with Study Center]

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This casebook offers students accessible, teachable, and insightful primary material, problems, and notes that clarify and encourage analysis of the law governing lawyers. The book’s innovative pedagogy uses a combination of problems faced by fictitious law firm “Martyn and Fox,” cases, ethics opinions, notes, and tables to support its focus on teaching the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers and invite consideration of lawyer ethical dilemmas. The book’s manageable length makes it short enough to provide focus, but long enough to convey the rich texture of the subject.

New to the Sixth Edition:

• New co-author Marsha Griggs, who brings to this edition her extensive experience in legal practice, clinical legal education, expertise in legal analysis, and classroom pedagogy
• Expanded/updated coverage of ethical implications of the rise of AI use by lawyers, lawyer licensure information, issues with lawyer-client privilege and the use of AI, and the significant changes made to ABA Model Rule 1.14 regarding clients with decision making limitations
• New cases, including Kentucky Bar Association v. Helmers; In re William A. Goebel; U.S. v. Heppner, and Mata v. Avianca, Inc.
• New Ethics notes
• New and updated problems
• New diagrams and charts
• Updated Rule 1.14

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Comprehensive coverage of a wide range of ethical issues and remedies through a combination of problems, cases, afterwords, ethics opinions, tables, and explanatory notes throughout that showcase and clarify the law governing lawyers.
• Student-accessible, teachable problems, which encourage nuanced explorations of the Model Rules, Restatement, cases, and materials, and which are suited to both small and large classes.
• Thematic notes introducing students to sources and content of the law governing lawyers and commentary about the legal profession organized around recurring themes:
  • Lawyers’ Roles (lawyers who suffer consequences by under- or over-identifying with clients and those who avoid these dangers)
  • The Law Governing Lawyers (professional discipline, tort liability, and equitable remedies, including undue influence presumptions, constructive trusts, fee forfeiture, disqualification, injunctive relief, and procedural sanctions)
  • The Bounds of the Law (the rules of professional conduct, court orders, fraud, crime, and applicable statutes)
  • Lawyers and Clients (ethics issues arising in specific client representations, such as pro bono, criminal and insurance defense, organizations, and governments)
• Manageable length—The text is short enough to cover in a typical course but detailed enough to provide thorough treatment of the issues at hand.
• Innovative Teacher’s Manual, which provides basic and expanded information for each problem, including a short answer, a policy analysis, suggestions for additional hypos, and extensive citations to cases and materials that have considered the issue.
• Annual supplement including Model Rules, Restatement, and Code of Judicial Conduct.

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