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Regulation Of Lawyers: Problems Of Law And Ethics (Casebook) (Casebook)

Stephen Gillers

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Too bad if your professor requries this one 1 out of 5 stars.
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This book is just awful -

It is edited terribly, and very confusing, It's just really seems a listing of all the cases ever decided - awfully structured - a terrible way to learn ethics - it takes a subject that could be interesting and makes it terribly, boring. The book is fundamentally hard to read, hard to remember. It is totally not useful as a teaching tool. In the hands of an inexperienced professor its a nightmare!

Gillers, don't suffer anyone else your bad text books again. You've taken an interesting subject, made it bland, confusing, and almost incomprehensible. Please, professors considering this book - look somewhere else - don't encourage him to write again!

Look out this thing is terrible!

A very comprehensive, easy to understand ethics text 5 out of 5 stars.
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I think the other reviewer, who gave this text one star, must not have invested sufficient time in understanding the material. The Gillers text is very comprehensive in its treatment, which is a STRENGTH. It is the nature of ethics that even well-chosen ethics cases will usually involve more than one issue, and the author has chosen to reinforce certain concepts over and over instead of shielding the student from this, which sometimes involves looks ahead to certain topics. In addition, the ethics

If the other reviewer wanted a treatment that just touched the high points of the rules, enough to pass the MPRE, he read the wrong book. Ethics is a massive, often complicated subject that is rapidly evolving due to our current place in history. Hence many of the cases illustrating key points will be bar association decisions from certain states, or decisions from seemingly minor state courts. The author has done exhaustive research to locate and summarize these cases across all jurisdictions, due to the many differences across jurisdictions.

The book also contains extensive case studies of important topics outside the opinions (for example the "Triangle Shirtwaist" fire, and what happened on cross of a key witness). These sections help to break up the many case opinions, and help keep the material interesting and illustrative.

The problems are, in my opinion, very well constructed. Instead of being five-minute exercises dealing with just one issue, they are designed to be difficult and represent possible real-world situations, as well as to reinforce previous material. This means that if you do a problem on malpractice, for example, you should expect to potentially deal with conflicts of interest and many other issues. A teacher who adequately explores the problems with her students could almost teach the material just from the problems and the rules.

The book is so well-organized that even a perennial C student could read it and understand the material with some effort, and become a relative master of ethics. Perhaps that's not what the other reviewer wanted. If you want to REALLY learn ethics, including issues beyond the scope of the rules proper, I can't imagine a better book. If you cover the material and give it the attention it deserves, you also couldn't possibly fail the MPRE.

2008 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility (Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility: Including Califor)

Thomas D. Morgan, Ronald D. Rotunda

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This book has the most complete and up-to-date compilation of the ethics source material that students, faculty, and the practicing bar will need to examine the many issues of legal ethics that confront everyone who practices law. Professional Responsibility is one of the most rapidly changing fields in American law. New rules, not just new cases, come to the forefront each year. The 2008 edition of Morgan & Rotunda's Selected Standards on Professional Responsiblity, covering national as well as the New York and California standards on Professional Responsibility, has collected the most up-to-date and important standards that govern judicial and legal ethics. Students, faculty, the practicing bar, judges, and all those who write and study in this area will find in one short and accessible volume the essentials of what they will need to examine the many issues of professional responsiblity that they will confront on a daily basis.

Regulation of Lawyers: Statutes and Standards, Concise Edition

Stephen Gillers, Roy D. Simon

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No matter which casebook you use for your professional responsibility course, this highly-regarded supplement is the ideal source for the latest rules regulating the behavior of lawyers and judges. To ensure timely coverage of the most up-to-the-minute developments, be sure to add Regulation of Lawyers: Statutes and Standards, Concise Edition 2008, to your teaching tools. The Concise Edition includes everything contained in the full edition except the ethics rules and related statutes from California, the District of Columbia, and New York.

This 2008 Edition offers:

Completely up-to-date ABA Model Rules;

Federal statutes and regulations;

California, New York, and District of Columbia materials;

Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers;

Frequent Editor's Notes.

Problems in Legal Ethics (American Casebook Series)

Mortimer D. Schwartz, Richard C. Wydick, Rex R. Perschbacher, Debra Lyn Bassett

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Decent Textbook, but reading a Rule Book is more Helpful 3 out of 5 stars.
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Normally a law school text book is filled with case after case. Well for those of you who hate reading case after case, then this is the book for you.

On average there is only 1 case per chapter, with the remainder of the chapter devoted to ABA opinions and or Law review articles. While the articles are insightful, they really don't give you any more of an understanding of the ABA Rules, than just reading the rules with the commentary. What is good about this text, however, are the discussion problems at the beginning of the chapter and the multiple choice problems at the end of each chapter. These problems will help you better understand and think about the ABA Model rules.

Overall the book isn't too bad, but you if you have a copy of the ABA rules along with the commentary then this book becomes worthless for the most part.

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Intended for use in conjunction with the current edition of West's Professional Responsibility Standards, Rules & Statutes. Each chapter begins with a set of problems for discussion in the classroom. For each major topic, background reading material illustrates the variety of sources a lawyer or judge can use when seeking answers to ethics questions. The materials include ethics rule, judicial opinions, ethics committee opinions, and excerpts from articles and books written by judges, lawyers, and law teachers. Supplemental readings from the ABA Model Code, from the Law of Lawyering by Geoffrey Hazard and William Hodes, from Modern Legal Ethics by Charles Wolfram, and from various drafts of the Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers.

Professional Responsibility Examples & Explanations, 2e (Examples & Explanations)

W. Bradley Wendel

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Well written text and worth every cents of your money. 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is well written and provides excellent guide on the subjet. The text organizes in a clear and understandable presentation, and the examples and explanations provide in-depth discussion of key points. This book provides more info than the background needed for MPRE. However, this is not an drill book on the MPRE tests. You may get the drill questions from NCBE.

Professional Responsibility, Standards, Rules & Statutes, 2008-2009 Edition

John S. Dzienkowski

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This volume includes the Annotated ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, selected state modifications to the ABA Model Rules, California Rules of Professional Conduct, New York s Code of Professional Responsibility, ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility, ABA Canons of Professional Ethics, Restatement of the Law Third The Law Governing Lawyers, ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct (2008), the federal rules of judicial conduct and judicial disability proceedings, ABA Code of Judicial Conduct (1972), and rules of evidence and procedure that affect the legal profession. It also includes various standards for specialized areas of practice, standards for the organized regulation of lawyers, and relevant federal and state developments.

Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law

Lisa G. Lerman, Philip G. Schrag

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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
a detailed Teacher s Manual that provides thorough analysis of the hypothetical problems, formatted for easy adaptation to classnotes as well as fascinating post mortems and contextual commentary about the cases. After classroom analysis of a problem, a professor can tell the students 'what really happened.'

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.

Philosophy of Law

Joel Feinberg, Jules Coleman

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philsophy of law 4 out of 5 stars.
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the best book that I have read until now.

in detail....!

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This leading anthology contains legal cases and essays written by the finest scholars in legal philosophy, representing all major points of view on the most central topics in philosophy of law. Its primary focus is to relate traditional themes of legal philosophy to the concerns of modern society in a way that invigorates one and illuminates the other, respectively. This classic text is distinguished by its clarity, balance of topics, balance of substantive positions on controversial questions, topical relevance, imaginative use of cases and stories, and the inclusion of only lightly edited or untouched classics. This revision is distinguished in its inclusion of many articles relevant to terrorism and torture, contract and property, and a greater emphasis on concrete legal problems.

The Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Environment of Business

Bruce D. Fisher, Michael J. Phillips

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This highly effective text has chapters arranged in seven functional modules to emphasize how legal topics relate to business functions like marketing, finance, human resources, accounting, and manufacturing. Streamlined for easy readability, the text contains excerpted cases offering substantial portions of original language of the court. In addition, the text presents a strong emphasis on ethics, international law and environmental law as well as Internet applications to encourage students to use the Web as a resource.

Legal Ethics (University Casebook Series)

Deborah L. Rhode, David Luban

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Legal Ethics combines real life problems, doctrinal and statutory analysis, and carefully edited readings from a wide range of disciplines. Many of the chapters can be used as independent units for courses focusing on ethical problems in corporate practice, tax practice, family law, and public interest law. The new edition also includes extensive revisions and updating to reflect:

• changes in the Model Rules adopted by the American Bar Association in 2002 and 2003

• recent corporate scandals and the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation

• the War on Terror and its impact on issues of lawyer-client confidentiality

• new research on the distribution of legal services and pro bono work

• technological developments that affect regulatory issues, such as internet advertising and non lawyer services

• new Supreme Court decisions and other leading cases on issues such as effective assistance of counsel, conflicts of interest, and prosecutorial misconduct