Examples & Explanations for Professional Responsibility

By W. Bradley Wendel

Book Overview

Examples & Explanations for Professional Responsibility, Sixth Edition, is a thorough and comprehensive text that can be used by students as a study aid and by professional responsibility teachers as a class text. It covers the whole field of professional responsibility, focusing not only on the ABA Model Rules, but on the often-complex relationship between the rules and doctrines of agency, tort, contract, evidence, and constitutional law.

Beginning with the formation of the attorney-client relationship, the book proceeds through topics including attorneys' fees, malpractice and ineffective assistance of counsel, confidentiality and privilege rules, conflicts of interest, witness perjury and litigation misconduct, advertising and solicitation, admission to practice, and the organization of the legal profession.

Coverage includes all subjects that are tested on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE), including:

A chapter on judicial ethics, a subject tested on the MPRE and not often covered thoroughly, if at all, in law school professional responsibility courses.

Updated discussion and examples based on recent developments in the law, including the ABA's simplification of the rules on advertising and solicitation, new Model Rule 8.4(g) on discrimination in the practice of law, the California Supreme Court's Sheppard Mullin opinion on advance waivers of conflicts, and continuing developments in the impact of technology on the practice of law.

More MPRE-style multiple-choice questions in the Examples.

New to the Sixth Edition:

Revised and updated to reflect recent developments in the law having to do with lawyering, including new ABA rules, ethics opinions, and cases.

New and revised examples and explanations in many chapters.

Professors and students will benefit from:

Comprehensive, updated coverage of all areas of professional responsibility, with attention to areas that are particularly challenging for students (as well as many practicing lawyers ), such as conflicts of interest and privilege and confidentiality.

A study aid that without "teaching to the test," provides students with thorough preparation for the MPRE, which is the first licensing exam that many law students take.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1543805787
• ISBN13: 9781543805789
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Aspen Publishing
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.9" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Book, but not for the MPRE

Well written and informative. Unusually lucid for a book on the law. Author occasionally lets his politics slip, but it's his book after all. This would be a good companion text for any professional responsibility course in law school. It goes over the Model Code, Model Rules and Restatement. It discusses conflicting policy considerations and alternative resolutions reached by different courts. Good stuff. It will help you write a strong essay on a final exam. If you are taking the MPRE, however, this book won't help much. The discussion of different rules just confuses the issue--for the MPRE all you need is the Model Rules. Also, there are several topics on the MPRE which are not covered in this book, the most obvious example being the ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct. My advice, if you are taking the MPRE, is to read the rules and do as many practice questions as humanely possible. That's all the study you'll ever need for the MPRE. Also worth mentioning is that very few practicing attorneys will find this a useful reference. This is an academic discussion. It covers the Model rules, not the rules in the jurisdiction where you practice. So just do what everyone else does--call the state bar ethics hotline when you have a question, and let them deal with it.

Great Review for Law Students

The summaries of the blackletter law are great. I buy these E & E books for the hypos, though. I do much better on exams when I can work through the examples and explanations as party of my study routine.

Got me through the final

My legal pro professor was lacking in an ability to convey an understanding of the material. I spent a few days working through each applicable chapter of this book. It really taught me the material in a way that I could get a working knowledge of it. Unfortunately for me I only had enough time to read the text of the chapters and get a basic understanding of the material...and ended up with a B. I think with time to go through the examples and explanations I would have gotten the A. Gonna hold onto it for the MRPE.

Puts those wordy rules into laymen terms

The PR rules can get overwhelming because they're so wordy and long. This series does a good job of putting it into plain language and gives really good examples. I recommend it.

Well written text and worth every cents of your money.

This book is well written and provides excellent guide on the subjet. The text organizes in a clear and understandable presentation, and the examples and explanations provide in-depth discussion of key points. This book provides more info than the background needed for MPRE. However, this is not an drill book on the MPRE tests. You may get the drill questions from NCBE.