Questions & answers, professional responsibility : multiple-choice and short-answer questions and answers

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Where to find it

Law Library — 2nd Floor Collection (2nd floor)

Call Number
KF306.Z9 L66 2017
Status
Available

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Summary

This all-new fourth edition of Professor Longan's popular study guide is the perfect companion for your professional responsibility course. The book offers a comprehensive review of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the Model Code of Judicial Conduct, and related doctrines of professional responsibility such as malpractice and disqualification law. It includes 208 questions, both multiple choice and short answer, along with complete explanations of the right and wrong answers. The book is a hands-on tool for testing your knowledge. Use it to review and to assess your understanding of what you are learning in class and to prepare for exams. Compare your answers and reasoning with Professor Longan's explanations of what your Professional Responsibility professor will expect from you.

The book will also be a big help in your preparation for the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam. Its organization and content mirrors what you can expect on the MPRE, and the format of the book's multiple choice questions tracks the format of what you will see on the bar. Use this valuable preparation tool to make sure that you pass the MPRE the first time!

Contents

Regulation of the legal profession -- The client-lawyer relationship -- Client confidentiality -- Conflicts of interest -- Competence, legal malpractice, and other civil liability -- Litigation and other forms of advocacy -- Transactions and communications with persons other than clients -- Different roles of the lawyer -- Safekeeping funds and other property -- Communications about legal services -- Lawyers' duties to the public and the legal system -- Judicial conduct.

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