Problems in legal ethics

Synopsis

The widely used Problems in Legal Ethics supplements the current edition of West's Professional Responsibility Standards, Rules & Statutes and incorporates many recent changes in legal ethics. Each chapter begins with a set of problems for discussion in the classroom. For each major topic, background reading material illustrates the variety of sources a lawyer or judge can use when seeking answers to ethics questions. Supplemental readings include the ABA Model Code and other ethics rules, judicial opinions, ethics committee opinions, and excerpts from articles and books written by judges, lawyers, and law teachers. Updated to incorporate recent developments in legal ethics, the new edition includes 2003 amendments to the ABA Model Rules, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and proposed amendments to the ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct.