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Professional Responsibility: Examples & Explanations

Second Edition

W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell University

2007. 471 pages. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0-7355-6244-8


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About the Book

Now in its Second Edition, this text continues to be an appropriate ancillary source for students in any Professional Responsibility course. Not only does it utilize the proven pedagogy of the E&E series, but it is a completely comprehensive and well-balanced text. This problem-oriented guide is not a simple march through the Model Rules. Instead, it is structured around concepts, with rules and the generally applicable law introduced as needed.

This edition retains the great features that made it a dependable source for students in its First Edition:

  • Covers the entire law governing lawyers
  • Includes agency, fiduciary duty, tort, contract, constitutional, and corporate and securities law.
  • Applies concepts and introduces the generally applicable law as needed, avoiding a narrow focus on the Model Rules
  • Supplements textual discussions with examples that work through progressively more complex issues
  • Uses both text and problems to break the analysis down into steps
  • Presents a balanced approach to controversial issues
  • Offers an accessible, conversational style
  • Draws examples from actual cases, so they are representative of the problems students can expect to encounter in practice
  • Incorporates the new sources of law (ABA’s Ethics 2000 Initiative, Restatement of Law Governing Lawyers, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) organically, rather than as add-ons

Carefully revised in its Second Edition, this fully up-to-date source:

  • Integrates carefully and thoughtfully updated cases, ethics opinions, and problems
  • Emphasizes the newest versions of the ABA rules, while retaining information about the older rules where necessary.


Please also examine the companion websites for:

Traversing the Ethical Minefield: Problems, Law, and Professional Responsibility
by Susan Martyn and Lawrence Fox

The Law Governing Lawyers: National Rules, Standards, Statutes, and State Lawyer Codes
2007-2008 Statutory Supplement
by Susan Martyn, Lawrence Fox, and W. Bradley Wendel

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