Morgan's Professional Responsibility, Problems and Materials, 15th
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Description
Widespread teaching of Professional Responsibility in American law schools began in the mid-1970s. One of the first books in the new field was Thomas D. Morgan & Ronald D. Rotunda, Professional Responsibility: Problems & Materials (1976). The 15th Edition of those materials, celebrating the book’s 50th anniversary, is now available. Built around problems, the book asks students to think about how they should behave in challenging, concrete settings.
The 15th Edition remains flexible enough to use in an overview course and challenging enough to use in ethics courses focused on particular areas of practice. It comprehensively addresses the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, but also deals with additional issues raised in the Restatement (Third): The Law Governing Lawyers and in state rules that illustrate different ways to regulate lawyer conduct.
Perhaps most important, the 15th Edition keeps up with a rapidly-changing legal profession and with changes in lawyer regulation that respond to new developments. The book considers the potential for virtual lawyer practice and increased tolerance of practice from outside a lawyer’s licensing jurisdiction. It examines protection of confidential client information in a world where potential hackers threaten lawyer data and where it may be tempting for law firms to use client information to train Artificial Intelligence programs. The 15th edition covers lawyer counseling and responds to issues of diversity. It introduces forms of litigation finance and deals with Utah’s Regulatory Sandbox and Arizona’s rules that, even now, let regulators see new forms of practice take shape and assess the risks and benefits of lawyers’ possible new future.
Since 1976, the authors of Professional Responsibility: Problems & Materials have helped students prepare to respond to professional challenges they will meet upon graduation, but also to understand how their profession and its challenges are changing. The new 15th Edition continues to meet those objectives.
The 15th Edition remains flexible enough to use in an overview course and challenging enough to use in ethics courses focused on particular areas of practice. It comprehensively addresses the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, but also deals with additional issues raised in the Restatement (Third): The Law Governing Lawyers and in state rules that illustrate different ways to regulate lawyer conduct.
Perhaps most important, the 15th Edition keeps up with a rapidly-changing legal profession and with changes in lawyer regulation that respond to new developments. The book considers the potential for virtual lawyer practice and increased tolerance of practice from outside a lawyer’s licensing jurisdiction. It examines protection of confidential client information in a world where potential hackers threaten lawyer data and where it may be tempting for law firms to use client information to train Artificial Intelligence programs. The 15th edition covers lawyer counseling and responds to issues of diversity. It introduces forms of litigation finance and deals with Utah’s Regulatory Sandbox and Arizona’s rules that, even now, let regulators see new forms of practice take shape and assess the risks and benefits of lawyers’ possible new future.
Since 1976, the authors of Professional Responsibility: Problems & Materials have helped students prepare to respond to professional challenges they will meet upon graduation, but also to understand how their profession and its challenges are changing. The new 15th Edition continues to meet those objectives.