First Assignment Spring 2016

The bookstore website lists our class as Legal Profession 643c. The required texts for this class should be available under that designation.

Required text: 

Traversing the Ethical Minefield, Martyn and Fox, 3rd Edition

The Law Governing Lawyers, 2015-16, by Martyn and Fox.

CLASS ONE:

1. Introduction to Legal Ethics

Traversing the Ethical Minefield (Text), 11-21, 532-39 (Mattel)

 Elizabeth Mary Kameen, Rethinking Zeal, 44-APR Maryland Bar Journal 4 (2011) (see & download attached document)

 Sward, Values, Ideology and the Evolution of the Adversary System,  64 Indiana Law Journal 301 (1988) (see & download attached document)

Model Rules 3.1, 3.3(a)(2), 3.5(d), FRCP 11 (Supplement, 277-78)

CLASS TWO

2. Introduction to Legal Ethics Part II

Text, 539-45 (Capital Title)

Chudasama v. Mazda, 123 F.3d 1353, 1353-67 (1997)

Model Rules, 3.2, 3.4