Professional Responsibility - summer 2012 updated May 12, 2012
George W. Conk, Adjunct Professor & Senior Fellow, Stein Center for Law & Ethics, Fordham Law School email: gconk@law.fordham.edu Office: Room 409 Phone: 212-636-7446
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:00 - 8:25 PM, Rm. 207
Required materials:
Casebook: Professional Responsibility, Pearce, Capra, Green (West 2011)
Interactive casebook: http://www.interactivecasebook.com
George W. Conk, Adjunct Professor & Senior Fellow, Stein Center for Law & Ethics, Fordham Law School email: gconk@law.fordham.edu Office: Room 409 Phone: 212-636-7446
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:00 - 8:25 PM, Rm. 207
Required materials:
Casebook: Professional Responsibility, Pearce, Capra, Green (West 2011)
Interactive casebook: http://www.interactivecasebook.com
Rules, Standards, Statutes, and Codes: The Law Governing Lawyers, (LGL) Martyn, Fox, Wendel (Wolters Kluwer 2011-2012 Edition)
Blog:
Otherwise: http://blackstonetoday.blogspot.com
(syllabus, links to resources, etc.)
Assignments
Week 1 (May 22 - 24)
First class:
Blog:
Otherwise: http://blackstonetoday.blogspot.com
(syllabus, links to resources, etc.)
Assignments
Week 1 (May 22 - 24)
First class:
Model Rules of Professional Conduct: read black letter rules
Pearce: Chapter 1 Introducing Professionalism and Legal Ethics
Second class: Pearce: begin Chapter 2 (25-76) The Basic Elements of Law Practice
LGL: Model Rules & comments 1.0 to 1.4; The Jacoby & Myers Challenges
Week 2 (May 29 - 30)
conclude Chapter 2
Weeks 3- 4 (June 5, 12, 14) NO CLASS June 7
Pearce: Chapter 3 Finding & Billing Clients
LGL: Model Rules & comments 1.13, 1.14, 1.16, 1.18, 7.1 to 7.6
Finding clients (173 - 231)
Fees and billing (232-296)
LGL: Model Rule and comments: 1.5
Week 5 (June 19 - 21)
Chapter 4 The Lawyer's Duty of Confidentiality
Attorney - Client Privilege
Pearce: ( 297 - 352)
Confidentiality under R. 1.6 and the Duty of Corporate Counsel Under Sarbanes Oxley
Pearce: 352 - 386
LGL: Model Rules & comments 1.6
Week 6 (June 26 - 28)
Chapter 5: Conflicts of Interest
Attorney-client Privilege
Pearce: 387 - 416
LGL: Model Rules & comments 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.12, 2.4
Week 7 (July 3) NO CLASS July 5
Conflicts - continued
Pearce: 416-460, 471-486
Conflicts in criminal cases
Pearce: 486-510
Week 8 (July 10 - 12)
Conclude Conflicts
Chapter 6 The Lawyer's Duty to the Legal System, the Profession and Nonclients
Duties to Third Parties and the Law
Pearce: 573 - 599
Week 9 (July 17 - 19)
Chapter 7 Prosecutors and Judges
Prosecutors
Pearce: 629 - 660
Week 8 (July 12, 14)
Right to counsel, discovery,trial
Pearce: 660 - 707
Ch. 7 Special Ethical Rules
Ethical Standards for Judges:
Pearce: 716-764
Exam: 24 hour take-home (download/upload)
Essay type questions
Pearce: Chapter 1 Introducing Professionalism and Legal Ethics
Second class: Pearce: begin Chapter 2 (25-76) The Basic Elements of Law Practice
LGL: Model Rules & comments 1.0 to 1.4; The Jacoby & Myers Challenges
Week 2 (May 29 - 30)
conclude Chapter 2
Weeks 3- 4 (June 5, 12, 14) NO CLASS June 7
Pearce: Chapter 3 Finding & Billing Clients
LGL: Model Rules & comments 1.13, 1.14, 1.16, 1.18, 7.1 to 7.6
Finding clients (173 - 231)
Fees and billing (232-296)
LGL: Model Rule and comments: 1.5
Week 5 (June 19 - 21)
Chapter 4 The Lawyer's Duty of Confidentiality
Attorney - Client Privilege
Pearce: ( 297 - 352)
Confidentiality under R. 1.6 and the Duty of Corporate Counsel Under Sarbanes Oxley
Pearce: 352 - 386
LGL: Model Rules & comments 1.6
Week 6 (June 26 - 28)
Chapter 5: Conflicts of Interest
Attorney-client Privilege
Pearce: 387 - 416
LGL: Model Rules & comments 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.12, 2.4
Week 7 (July 3) NO CLASS July 5
Conflicts - continued
Pearce: 416-460, 471-486
Conflicts in criminal cases
Pearce: 486-510
Week 8 (July 10 - 12)
Conclude Conflicts
Chapter 6 The Lawyer's Duty to the Legal System, the Profession and Nonclients
Duties to Third Parties and the Law
Pearce: 573 - 599
Week 9 (July 17 - 19)
Chapter 7 Prosecutors and Judges
Prosecutors
Pearce: 629 - 660
Week 8 (July 12, 14)
Right to counsel, discovery,trial
Pearce: 660 - 707
Ch. 7 Special Ethical Rules
Ethical Standards for Judges:
Pearce: 716-764
Exam: 24 hour take-home (download/upload)
Essay type questions
