2016-2017 School of Law Catalog 
    
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LAW 175 - Professional Responsibility.


A consideration of the sources and implications of the moral behavior of lawyers, and of the consequences of immoral behavior by lawyers, including professional discipline and the imposition of damages for legal malpractice. The course considers the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility of the American Bar Association; earlier American compilations on professional ethics, proposals for reform; current sources on the law of legal malpractice and legal-malpractice prevention; and non-legal sources on ethics, including biography, fiction, history, philosophy, and moral theology. Three hours. Moliterno, Sahani, and Shaughnessy



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