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Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lisa G. Lerman, Philip G. Schrag
Publisher: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $135.00
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 258403
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 976
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.1 x 1.9
ISBN: 0735565295
Dewey Decimal Number: 174.3
EAN: 9780735565296
ASIN: 0735565295
Publication Date: April 22, 2008
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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.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Shoddily put together substantively and otherwise October 23, 2008
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.
 Uh. It's a textbook. September 28, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
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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