Professional Responsibility

Catalog description

This course is a simulation-based exploration of the law governing lawyers. This includes the organization and operation of the legal profession, and the obligations of lawyers to their clients, to third parties and to society. The course seeks to provide a broad examination of the rules that guide the profession while examining these rules in the context of moral and philosophical concerns. The course combines traditional teaching methodology with simulations. The simulations are conducted in conjunction with practicing lawyers and judges who are Teaching Fellows for the Jacob Burns Ethics Center. This course focuses upon ethical issues that arise in civil litigation and transactions.