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 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.
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. The lesson can be used as preparation, review or substitution for class coverage of this topic.
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.)
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. The Preliminary Drill exercise, above, is intended to serve as preparation for this exercise, though students could also prepare for it by reading the Model Rules and taking notes. Students should have a copy of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct with them when doing this lesson.
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.
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.