LAW7070 Professional Responsibility

This course examines the ethics and law of lawyering, approaching attorney problems from multiple perspectives. This course includes substantial instruction in the rules of professional conduct, and the values and responsibilities of the legal profession and its members. Covered topics also include the organization of the bar, attorney discipline and disability, the delivery of legal services, the attorney-client relationship, the duties of loyalty and confidentiality, fees, and various issues, including conflict of interest and substance abuse. The importance of cross-cultural competency to professionally responsible representation and the obligation of lawyers to promote a justice system that provides equal access and eliminates bias, discrimination, and racism in the law are among the values and responsibilities of the legal profession to which students are introduced. Prerequisite: None