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Please read the items below in Chapters 1 and 2 of the text and pages 1-10 in the 2016 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility. We will discuss Problems 1, 2 & 3.
The Legal Profession: Background, Fundamental Issues & Regulation
Unit 1: The sociology of professions, The state of American legal profession today, Development of the legal profession; Development of professional conduct standards; Prob. 1: Admission to the Bar - Character & fitness for admission to the bar; Candor in the bar application process; Educational & knowledge standards for bar admission; Other attempts at state and federal limits on bar admission. (**OMIT Pages 18-26)
Unit 2: Prob. 2: Lawyer Discipline & The Disabled Lawyer - Conduct that may subject lawyer to professional discipline; jurisdictions that may sanction & the law they apply; Duty to report another lawyer's misconduct, the discipline process;
Unit 3: Prob. 3: Regulating Lawyers Outside of the Formal Disciplinary Process - Standard of care and conduct in a malpractice action; Proving a malpractice case; Malpractice remedies; Advance waivers of a lawyer's malpractice.
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