Professional Responsibility

Catalog description

Designed to acquaint law students, as potential lawyers, with the honor, dignity, principles, and integrity expected of them in the practice of law. Includes such topics as the history and organization of the bar; the right to practice; the substantive and procedural "law" involved in disciplining lawyers; the lawyer’s devotion and fiduciary responsibility to clients; the lawyer’s responsibility to the courts, the legal profession, and fellow attorneys; the problems of fees, solicitation, and advertising by lawyers, and the lawyer’s responsibility to the community.