Spring 2024
Professor(s):
Meredith Duncan (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Procedure and Practice
Time: 2:30p-4:00p MW Location: 210
Course Outline: This course is a study of the legal and ethical responsibilities of members of the legal profession. A required course, Professional Responsibility focuses on both the Model Rules of Professional Conduct as well as the current law governing the conduct of lawyers.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Quota=60
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 5/2/2024 2-5 210 211
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: Required (MPRE)
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Required Course)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Jefferson et al., Professional Responsibility: A Contemporary Approach (5th ed. 2023) ISBN: 9781636595764; Michael L. Seigel & James L. Kelley, Lawyers Crossing Lines: Ten Stories (2d ed. 2010); Current ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (the “Model Rules” or “MRs”); and Current ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct
Recommended Supplement – John S. Dzienkowski, Professional Responsibility Standards, Rules, and Statutes (2023-2024 abridged edition)ISBN: 9781685619855 (contains the Model Rules and the Model Code of Judicial Conduct)
