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Book Description:
Traversing the Ethical Minefield: Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Second Edition, presents concise coverage of a wide range of ethical issues through a vital and dynamic pedagogy that engages student interest and fuels class discussion. A fresh approach to teaching legal ethics and professional responsibility, featuring: a wide range of coverage in a concise volumeinnovative pedagogy that combines problems, cases, exposition, and thematic notesoriginal mini-law review notes organized around recurring themeslawyers' roles in representing clientsthe law governing lawyersthe bounds of the lawpractice pointerslawyers and other professionalslawyers and clientsstudent-friendly and timely problems that explore the Model Rules, Restatement, cases, and materials and complement both large and small classesshort stories that explore ethical dilemmas in the context of legal practicea detailed Teacher s Manual that explains every problem and offers policy analysis, additional hypotheticals, and extensive citations to relevant cases and materialsan annual statutory supplement, available for adoption, with a bound-in CD that includes the full text of each state s lawyer code. New in the Second Edition:A new chapter on Communication and Control, including coverage of control in the lawyer-client relationshipCoverage of the revised ABA Code of Judicial Conduct in a new chapter on Judicial EthicsAn additional series of notes on ethical challenges unique to specialized areas of practice, including pro bono representation, criminal defense, insurance defense, representing organizations, and representing governmentsNew cases and narratives dealing with the Revised Model Rules of Professional ConductCheney v. U.S. District Court and other important recent casesIf you re looking for a professional responsibility casebook that you will enjoy teaching from and your students will love, please take a look at Traversing the Ethical Minefield: Problems, Law, and Professional Responsibility, Second Edition.