Professional Responsibility

Professional Responsibility (Benedetto Nietz, Golden Gate University)
This class will develop critical thinking skills and foster deeper understanding of the ethical challenges facing lawyers.  Through study of applicable rules and class discussion of contemporary examples, students will learn how to approach such challenges in the real world.

Providing Pro Bono Legal Services: Professional Responsibility and Entrepreneurial Leadership (Oppenheimer, Schechter, and Petznick, UC Berkeley)
This course will: Examine professional responsibility in the legal profession, with a focus on the responsibilities of lawyers who provide pro bono legal services; apply the rules of professional responsibility to the challenges faced by student-initiated legal services projects (SLPS) leaders and participants; explore the entrepreneurial leadership skills required for successful leadership of SLPS projects; and meet with leaders of legal services organizations and the Bar to study their approaches to effective leadership

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY (Maute, University of Oklahoma)
The primary goal of this course is to acquaint you with the substantive law governing lawyers (LGL), derived from numerous sources, including enforceable (but not always enforced) Rules of Professional Conduct, and from diverse areas of law, including contracts, torts, agency, evidence, procedure, constitutional and criminal law. A second goal of the course is to have you begin to consider the “ethics” of the profession and their relation to your own individual morality.