Professional Responsibility

Professional Responsibility is a course on the most important rules and doctrines of the law of lawyering as defined by the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers.  It is designed to teach you not only what the applicable rules and doctrines say, but how to recognize circumstances that require the application of those rules and doctrines, how to apply the correct analysis to those circumstances and how to articulate proper arguments for the participants in the processes in which the rules and doctrines apply.  The course is also designed to prepare you to participate in the policy debates regarding the regulation of the profession.