Professional Responsibility Syllabus (Preliminary*)
summer 2013 - updated - May 20, 2013
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
Cell: 201-264-1177
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:00 - 8:15 PM, Rm. 204
Required materials:
Casebook: Professional Responsibility, A Contemporary Approach
Pearce, Capra, Green
(West – First Edition)
Interactive casebook: http://www.interactivecasebook.com (purchasers of hard copy also receive access to the interactive version)
Rules, Standards, Statutes, and Codes: The Law Governing Lawyers, (LGL) Martyn, Fox, Wendel (Wolters Kluwer 2013-2014 Edition)
Blogs:
Otherwise
(syllabus, links to resources, etc.)
ContemporaryProfessionalResponsibiity.com
Assignments
Week 1
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
conclude Chapter 2
Weeks 3- 4
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
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
Chapter 5: Conflicts of Interest
Pearce:
LGL: Model Rules & comments 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.12, 2.4
Week 7
Conflicts - continued
Pearce: 401- 436
Week 8
Conclude Conflicts
Tuesday
Pearce: 437-486
Thursday
Conflicts in criminal cases
Pearce: 486-510
Week 9
Chapter 7 Prosecutors and Judges
Tuesday
Prosecutors
Pearce: 629 - 660
Thursday
Right to counsel, discovery, trial
Pearce: 660 - 707
Exam: 24 hour take-home (download/upload)
Essay type questions
