Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4340 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 976 pages

Review
"This is the casebook that I would have written if it did not exist. I very much appreciate the practical layout. It allows me to focus on theoretical constructs and connect them to the practical application of the model rules of professional responsibility and the actual practice of law."

Customer Reviews

Shoddily put together substantively and otherwise
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.

Good Book
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.

Ethics book
Great book! Came in 3 days and was in great condition, even though it was used! I will def order from this person again.