Curriculum Guide · Courses

Professor Peter Tague

J.D. Course 361 | 2 credit hours

This course examines, against the background of the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the ethical obligations of lawyers in the United States. We have responsibilities to clients, the courts, and third parties, and those responsibilities sometimes conflict. Among the topics considered will be paternalism, confidentiality and candor (in negotiation and litigation), fees, conflicts of interest, free speech, and advertising for and solicitation of clients. Professors may also differ in the context chosen to address those (and other) topics: working in government or in a private or public interest law firm; and in the nature of law: civil or criminal.

Students may receive credit for only one offering in the Professional Responsibility series and may not receive credit for both a course in this series and American Legal Profession or Professional Responsibility: Lawyers’ Ethics in an Adversary System or Legal Ethics in Corporate Practice or Professional Responsibility: Problems from Practice or Professional Responsibility for Tax Lawyers. Students MAY receive credit for this course and Professional Responsibility in Law Firm and Corporate Practice.