LEGAL ETHICS: PRACTICE OF LAW

Catalog description

Satisfies Professional Responsibility Requirement. LEGAL ETHICS: PRACTICE OF LAW is review of the basic California and ABA rules and the ethical principles behind them through a discussion of actual practice problems. Ethical principles are introduced through these problems as they actually occur in practice -- as real-world ethical dilemmas. This course also emphasizes the practical and economic realities which can affect a lawyer's behavior, the tensions between traditional notions of ethical behavior and society's larger sense of morality, and the conflict between the duty to advocate for the client and to act for the public good. This course is intended to provide more in-depth and broader coverage than Professional Responsibility. NOTE: Students who enroll in this course may not enroll in Professional Responsibility or Roles & Ethics.