Professional Responsibility

These questions review the materials covered in Chapter Six of the textbook Judicial Ethics and Conduct, available from CALI's eLangdell website. The subject matter covered includes: judges' extrajudicial activities and campaigns for judicial office.

These questions review the materials covered in Chapter Five of the textbook Judicial Ethics and Conduct, available from CALI's eLangdell website. The subject matter covered includes disqualification / recusal.

These questions review the materials covered in Chapter Four of the textbook Judicial Ethics and Conduct, available from CALI's eLangdell website. The subject matter covered include ex parte subject matter.

These questions review the materials covered in Chapter Three of the textbook Judicial Ethics and Conduct, available from CALI's eLangdell website.

These questions review the materials covered in Chapter Two of the textbook Judicial Ethics and Conduct, available from CALI's eLangdell website. The subject matter covered includes: Maintaining the Independence and Impartiality of the Judiciary.

This lesson will introduce you to the ethical considerations associated with writing client advice letters. The lesson is intended for a first year law student currently taking a legal writing course. No previous knowledge of ethics is presumed.

This CALI lesson will introduce you to the ethical considerations associated with writing appellate briefs. The lesson is intended for a first year law student currently taking a legal writing course. No previous knowledge of ethics is presumed.

This is one in a series of lessons directed at the ethical and professional considerations associated with the production of particular lawyering documents. This lesson is intended to introduce first year law students to the ethical and professional considerations associated with email correspondence in law practice. No prior instruction in professional responsibility is required.

This lesson explores the exceptions to an attorney's ethical duty of confidentiality that are designed to protect third persons from death, injury or financial loss.

This lesson helps students distinguish between the two major rules that protect client confidentiality: the ethical duty of confidentiality and the evidentiary attorney-client communications privilege. The lesson examines the scope of each and the relationship between the two.

This lesson reviews problems in client identification. The lesson is in the form of a game show CLIENT OR NOT?! in which students are presented with an individual who is claiming to be a client.

This lesson reviews an attorney's responsibilities when setting, sharing and collecting fees. By the end of the lesson, students should be able to identify how much, by what method, and under what circumstances they can charge fees from clients, share fees with others, and take actions to collect fees.

This lesson reviews the guidance provided to attorneys by the Model Rules of Professional Conduct on selecting, rejecting or withdrawing from the representation of clients. The Model Rules studied in particular are Rules 1.16 and 6.2. Each section can be studied separately.

This lesson reviews the standards for discipline and the interpretive case law by examining a series of cases in which considering whether the conduct alleged falls under the definition of misconduct (using Model Rule 8.4). Some procedural and constitutional aspects of discipline are examined as well. The lesson can be used as preparation, review or substitution for class coverage of this topic.

Through a simulated counseling session with a prospective law student, this lesson reviews the types of admission to practice, and the procedures and substantive standards for admission to practice.

Attorneys must conform their conduct to a wide range of rules drawn from a variety of sources. This program is designed to review these sources of law governing attorney conduct.

The student plays the role of a lawyer in a hypothetical criminal trial. As the trial progresses the student is faced with various problems raising issues under the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the ABA Standards for Criminal Justice.

This lesson presents students with hypothetical factual situations and asks whether certain conduct would violate the Code. The is a branching tutorial and includes follow-up questions, dialogue, and new questions based upon changes in the original hypotheticals.

This is an introduction to the black-letter rules of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. It is a linear question-and-answer drill. Students are asked short questions and given immediate feedback. This drill is intended to serve as preparation for the level II exercise, Questions and Problems, described below. (This exercise is a new exercise that is completely different from the drill exercise offered in previous years. The earlier drill exercise has been revised and is being offered as the Questions and Problems exercise, below.)