Professional Responsibility Examples & Explanations, 2e,   ISBN:9780735562448

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Now in its <b>Second Edition</b>, <b>Examples & Explanations: Professional Responsibility</b> 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. <p class="copymedium"> <b>This edition retains the great features that made it a dependable source for students in its First Edition:</b> </p> <ul> <li class="copymedium"> covers the entire law governing lawyers </li> <li class="copymedium"> includes agency, fiduciary duty, tort, contract, constitutional, and corporate and securities law. </li> <li class="copymedium"> applies concepts and introduces the generally applicable law as needed, avoiding a narrow focus on the Model Rules </li> <li class="copymedium"> supplements textual discussions with examples that work through progressively more complex issues </li> <li class="copymedium"> uses both text and problems to break the analysis down into steps </li> <li class="copymedium"> presents a balanced approach to controversial issues </li> <li class="copymedium"> offers an accessible, conversational style </li> <li class="copymedium"> draws examples from actual cases, so they are representative of the problems students can expect to encounter in practice </li> <li> incorporates the new sources of law (ABA's Ethics 2000 Initiative, Restatement of Law Governing Lawyers, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) organically, rather than as add-ons </li> </ul> <p> <b>Carefully revised in its Second Edition, this fully up-to-date source:</b> </p> <ul> <li class="copymedium"> integrates carefully and thoughtfully updated cases, ethics opinions, and problems </li> <li class="copymedium"> emphasizes the newest versions of the ABA rules, while retaining information about the older rules where necessary </li> </ul> <p> An author website to support classroom instruction using this title is available at <a href="http://www.aspenlawschool.com/wendel2" target="_blank"> http://www.aspenlawschool.com/wendel2</a> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>