LAW 617 - Legal Ethics/PR

Unit(s): 3

A review of the ethical principles behind the basic California and ABA rules through a discussion of actual practice problems. Ethical principles are introduced through these problems as they actually occur in practice as real-world ethical dilemmas. This course, usually offered in a seminar format, also emphasizes the practical and economic realities that can affect a lawyer’s behavior, the tensions between traditional notions of ethical behavior, and society’s larger sense of morality, and the conflict between the duty to advocate for the client and to act for the public good. Students may satisfy the ethics course requirement by completion of either Professional Responsibility, Legal Ethics or an ethics elective. Students may NOT take both Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility.

Restriction: College restricted to School of Law
School of Law