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Covering all of the essential issues and topics, Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, Second Edition, offers straightforward exposition and a combination of principal cases and real-case problems that generate lively class discussion and encourage strategic analysis.

Engage your students with a contemporary approach that features:

  • thorough coverage of the ethics codes and other law governing lawyers, including legal malpractice, disqualification, wrongful discharge, and criminal malfeasance
  • concise, clear explanation of lawyer law in a readable question and answer format
  • an overview of the American legal profession and the challenges facing lawyers in the 21st century
  • more than 70 engaging problems for classroom discussion, some based on court opinions, others based on actual situations encountered by lawyers and law students
  • principal cases edited with care and presented with questions for discussion
  • tables and conceptual outlines that highlight relationships, illustrate concepts, and aid memory
  • photos of many lawyers and parties discussed in the text
  • more than 20 New Yorker cartoons illustrating classic ethical dilemmas

Thoroughly updated, the Second Edition now has a more flexible organization and coverage of important recent developments in the law, rules, and code, including:

  • updates reflecting recent revision of the state Rules of Professional Conduct in response to the Ethics 2000 Commission
  • new material on lawyers as counselors, the special duties of prosecutors, lawyer advertising, aggregate and class action settlements, and the revised Model Code of Judicial Conduct
  • new problems and cases
  • discussion of government challenges to the corporate attorney-client privilege
  • pedagogical fine-tuning based on feedback from scores of enthusiastic adopters and students at more than eighty US law schools

Respected scholars Lerman and Schrag have created an accessible, problem-based casebook that generates rich classroom discussion in courses in Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility.

LOOKING FOR ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO HELP YOU IN PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY? TRY EXAMPLES & EXPLANATIONS: PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY 3E (9780735599598) AND MPRE REVIEW 3E WITH CD (9780735597884) --TWO OF MANY GREAT STUDY GUIDES FROM WOLTERS KLUWER LAW & BUSINESS.

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    Aspen Publishers, Inc.
  5. Publication date
    April 22, 2008
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7 x 2 x 10 inches
  8. Print length
    976 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Aspen Publishers, Inc.; 2nd edition (April 22, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 976 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0735565295
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0735565296
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.7 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 2 x 10 inches
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    Philip G. Schrag, the Delaney Family Professor of Public Interest Law at Georgetown University Law Center, teaches Civil Procedure and directs the Center for Applied Legal Studies, in which students represent refugees from persecution who are seeking asylum in the United States. Before joining the Law Center faculty in 1981, he was assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Educational Fund, the Consumer Advocate of the City of New York, a professor at Columbia University Law School, and Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, from which he received a Meritorious Honor Award in 1981. Professor Schrag has also had a distinguished and varied career in civic service, which has included positions as a delegate to the District of Columbia Statehood Constitutional Convention in 1982, an editor and consultant on consumer protection during the Carter-Mondale transition, a consultant to the New York State Consumer Protection Board, a consultant to the Governor's Advisory Council of Puerto Rico, an advisor to the Committee of Chinese Legal Educators, and an Academic Specialist for the United States Information Agency in the Czech Republic and Hungary. In addition, he drafted New York City's Consumer Protection Act of 1969. He has written or co-authored fourteen books and dozens of articles on consumer law, nuclear arms control, legal ethics, political asylum, and various other topics for both law journals and popular publications. In 2008, he received the Association of American Law Schools' Deborah L. Rhode award for advancing public service opportunities in law schools through scholarship, service and leadership, the Lexis/Nexis' Daniel Levy Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Immigration Law, and the Outstanding Law Faculty Award from Equal Justice Works.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good Book
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2008
I just finished my PR course. Its a readable and interesting book. Its full of problems that are good discussion material in class or in a study group context (our professor spent lots of time fleshing out the issues in the problems, especially given the lack of significant case law on this subject and the main focus on rule analysis). It even has charicatures that make for nice periodic rests from reading. I really dont think that the negative review is fair to this text.
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Jones
1.0 out of 5 stars An absolutely worthless examination of the ABA Model Rules
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2012
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There is little value in a textbook that offers such bare guidance into legal ethics. This semester, my class struggled to deal with this piece of garbage. Presenting few exemplary cases and relying primarily on abstract hypotheticals, few putative explanations were ever provided. Related to this point, the layout of the book is also particularly poor; it is a waste of my time to ask me to read hypotheticals, but then not introduce the underlying material until subsequent sections. It would make sense to as students to read a hypothetical as a starting point, and then immediately introduce the materials. This is frequently not how this book operates. I do not mean the immediate subsequent sections contain the explanations, if any is offered. I mean that sometimes it may be another 20-50 pages before a point is clarified based on an abstract hypothetical - if at all.

Additionally, it often felt as if there was no rhyme or reason to the structure of the book on the whole, and there is also little examination of interplay between commonly-related though distally-grouped Model Rules. The vast majority of substantive offerings in the book are often fairly subjectively-written articles or short notes, which frequently seem to beg for additional expertise in related fields that most students (and most lawyers) will not possess. Further, critical explanations of complex points are often compacted into bizarre charts where often a very simple sentence or two would resolve a student's underlying confusion.

We are expected to pass the MPRE, and so many law schools will turn to this waste of paper in a partial attempt to prepare their students. I have never written a textbook review of a casebook before, but felt I should take the time to do so in the event any law professors out there are considering this book. Our exam was open book, which was ultimately of minimal benefit to us as students.

The only silver lining for me, pending a grade, is that I paid only about $45 for this book. If I had paid the bookstore price of $180+, I'd be livid.

This textbook is absolute garbage.
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Zhifei Li
4.0 out of 5 stars I like it
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2013
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It cost me $0.01 and 3.99 in shipment. When I got it I realized that the Model Rule was come to enforcement after the book publishing.
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K. K. Smith
3.0 out of 5 stars Uh. It's a textbook.
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2007
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Nobody buys textbooks because they want to, they do it because they are required to by a professor. This textbook is no different. It is fine, it has a sensible layout and reasonable problems. Whatever. It's a textbook.
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A Prime Amazonian
1.0 out of 5 stars Shoddily put together substantively and otherwise
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2008
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This textbook is vaguely written, unorganized, and poorly edited. The ABA rules are sprinkled throughout in a haphazard manner in no particular order except as relevant to the particular chapter. There is no comprehensive collection of these rules for easy access anywhere throughout.

There are few cases to assist in illustrating these rules; the authors have apparently spent all their time transforming helpful cases into open ended hypothetical problems that are of little to no help in actually informing the reader. This textbook format is unique and unusual in law books and should be applauded for creativity, even if the result is an incoherent inability to pass on information to the student.

From an editing standpoint, there are typos throughout that are embarrassing for Aspen Publishing as well as the authors. All of Chapter 6's headings on every page read "Chatper 6", for example. Just incredibly poorly done. My worst textbook of the entire 3 years of law school.
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Law Student Lee
4.0 out of 5 stars Informative book on Ethical Problems
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2014
I've dealt with so many unethical lawyers that Lisa's book hits the mark in what are the problems.
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margieebee
1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth buying if absolutely not required!
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2012
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Attention Professors considering utilizing this textbook in their Professional Responsibility courses: This really is one of the worst textbooks I've had in law school and wholeheartedly agree with all of the prior negative reviews. Please consider making it optional or choosing a different book altogether! There are few cases and the references to the model rules are randomly scattered about. Instead of providing examples of the "rules in action", the authors have opt-ed to include instead open-ended hypotheticals with no suggested answer. Hardly helpful for actually preparing for an exam in Professional Responsibility and this will certainly not help any student as they prepare for the Multi state Professional Responsibility Exam. I immediately sold this book after the class was done and purchased a supplement for both the Professional Responsibility course exam and the MPRE. Even if you don't purchase a supplement to this textbook, you are better off reading the Model Rules and comments to those rules to pass this class.
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