Sentences with phrase «legal ethics course»

Laurel S. Terry, A «How To» Guide for Incorporating Global and Comparative Perspectives into the Required Professional Responsibility Course, 51 St. Louis U. L. J. 1135 (2007)(discusses how to use the CCBE Code and other documents in the required legal ethics course)

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Religion has little to do with ethics... for example... is it right for you to allow someone else to accept your just punishment... of course not, we do not allow that in our legal system, because it is not ethical... but your religion is based on that one unethical behavior.

We have to take an ethics course every year as part of our mandatory continuing legal education credits as well.

A professor can teach legal ethics and refuse to discuss the rules of professional conduct (although that is more difficult now the Federation of Law Societies regulates the content of ethics courses).

As outlined in the course catalog, the department's offerings include courses covering bad legal arguments, electronic discovery, ethics and the solo practitioner, billing methods and ethics and trial preparation.

In the course of updating an article I wrote last year about legal - ethics resources on the Web, I came across Ethics and Lawyering Today, a monthly electronic newsletter highlighting important new cases, ethics opinions, and other developments, often with links to full text documents.

When we say that a law school course, or a textbook, covers legal ethics, most lawyers know the sorts of topics that course or textbook will cover, just as they would know what was covered by a course or textbook on evidence.

Of course, this is only one of many legal ethics problems that might arise communicating via live web chat.

Of course, in considering whether to allow comments, lawyers must consider potential legal ethics issues.

Courses are offered in popular areas such as legal research and writing, civil litigation, legal ethics, torts, and other legal disciplines.

Prior to being named the next common law dean, Dodek taught courses on public law and legislation, legal ethics and responsibility and a seminar on the Supreme Court of Canada.

In the same manner that mental health is discussed now, legal ethics was for a long time, simply an elective course, a subject matter to consider but not an integral part of the legal education system.

I believe that today most of the legal profession courses instead teach the law of professional ethics.

Faculty Carole J. Buckner, Deputy General Counsel, Procopio LLP (San Diego) Susan D. Carle, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law (Washington) Anne P. Ray, Partner, Jenner & Block LLP (Chicago) Course Description A panel of some of the nation's top legal ethics experts cover a range of ethical issues on attorney fees and legal billing.

The Virginia Supreme Court requires that each active member of the Virginia State Bar annually complete a minimum of twelve hours of approved continuing legal education courses, of which at least two hours shall be in the area of legal ethics or professionalism, unless expressly exempted from such requirement.

If Rosales seeks readmission, he must undergo a legal professional ethics training course, continue mental health counseling and participate in anger management classes.

Our founding member Michael Downey has completed graduate study on the legal industry and teaches courses on legal ethics and law firm practice.

He has also instructed at the Professional Legal Training Courses and frequently speaks on ethics and practice issues at various client and continuing legal education semiLegal Training Courses and frequently speaks on ethics and practice issues at various client and continuing legal education semilegal education seminars.

However, as FLSC president Marie - Claude Bélanger - Richard notes, «With the exception of requiring a stand - alone course in professionalism and legal ethics, the national requirement does not prescribe the content of law school curriculum.

Of course, the association will also be bound by its own code of ethics, standards and now legal regulations, so perhaps the government has all the more reason to trust the association.

With others, Bill introduced a new first - year course at the IU School of Law in 2009 called The Legal Profession, a mandatory four - hour course that covers the ethics, competencies, and economics of the legal profesLegal Profession, a mandatory four - hour course that covers the ethics, competencies, and economics of the legal profeslegal profession.

The course uses legal ethics and the law of lawyering as the spine of a course that educates law students on the competencies they must develop to be successful lawyers in the 21st Century.

She teaches courses in employment discrimination, legal ethics, constitutional law, judicial procedure and judicial decision making.

Melissa Hart has been a professor at the University of Colorado Law School since 2001, teaching courses in employment discrimination, legal ethics, constitutional law, judicial procedure and judicial decision making.

Mr. Maltz has been certified to teach an ethics CLE course by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board and he lectures often on disciplinary and ethical issues for New York State, City, and County Bar associations and for private law firms.

In this column I want to use that scandal to consider a more specific legal ethics issue: when lawyers are consulted about a criminal course of conduct, under what circumstances is that consultation confidential and privileged?

For someone with a passion for legal ethics like me, the course is extra fun because this practical experience is coupled with extensive instruction on professional responsibility issues.

While I would be unlikely to do so, in my view a professor could cut conflicts of interest from her curriculum while still providing an outstanding course on legal ethics.

This mandatory four - hour course covers the ethics, competencies, and economics of the legal profession.

This course examines the principles of legal ethics and professionalism.

[Disclosure: our Canadian firm offers an ethics course in Ontario and delivers mandatory ethics, legal update and fair housing courses in Texas and New York.]

Longer licensing courses, greater costs for entry levels, constant upgrades, and ever - higher standards for ethics have elevated legal and moral demands on the people in this business.