The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

The new 2006 Edition of the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on lawyer ethics. The ABA Model Rules serve as models for legal ethics rules of most states and provide guidance on key ethical issues, including lawyer malpractice, disciplinary action, sanctions and more.

This volume, the black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application.

This new edition, a revision of the longest-running professional responsibility title, includes a new author and a new title that emphasizes the two distinctive features of the book. Completely redone by Kaufman and Wilkins with a multitude of new problems, text, and excerpted materials, it still features the popular problems method of the earlier editions. A whole new dimension, however, has been added throughout, and in an additional section that features recent empirical work on lawyers, it examines how large-scale economic, demographic, and institutional changes are likely to shape the norms of legal practice and the careers of lawyers in the twenty-first century. A teacher's manual is available.

In Print and Online, Professional Responsibility: A Contemporary Approach makes legal ethics fun and challenging by offering a comprehensive treatment of the law and ethics of lawyers' work in a contemporary and accessible format. Faculty will have the option of using the casebook as an innovative paper text or as the foundation for a computer interactive pedagogy that features thought-provoking internet links, as well as multiple choice questions that allow the professor to connect interactively with each student through TWEN, even in a large lecture class. Unlike traditional law books, Professional Responsibility: A Contemporary Approach provides the resources of both a traditional casebook and of the internet, including access to Westlaw and TWEN.

This reference volume presents the codes of ethics and conduct used by professional organizations in law, medicine, accounting, psychology, engineering, business, real estate, social work, nursing, and other fields. All codes covered in the work are indexed by over one hundred issues.