Bundle: Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, Sixth Edition and The Law Governing Lawyers 2024-2025 Supplement

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Authors

Lisa G. Lerman
Philip G. Schrag
Robert Rubinson
Susan R. Martyn
Lawrence J. Fox
W. Bradley Wendel

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Book length

912 pages

Publication Date

2024-05-08

Edition

Sixth Edition

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Print Bundle - This bundle includes a print version of ISBN 9781543846218 and a digital-only version of supplement ISBN 9798892077637.

More about Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, the Sixth Edition is a problem-based which book reflects the authors’ broad range of teaching, clinical, and policy-making experience. The book’s carefully crafted ethical problems challenge students to engage in a deep analysis and participate in lively class discussion.

Bundle also includes The Law Governing Lawyers: Model Rules, Restatement, and Other Sources of Law 2024-2025. This volume introduces the reader to national standards to illustrate the growing body of law that governs lawyer conduct: the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, and selected federal statutes and rules.

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About the authors

Lisa G. Lerman

Professor of Law

The Catholic University of America

Lisa G. Lerman is Professor Emerita of Law at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law (CUA), where she was a full-time faculty member from 1987 until 2016. At CUA, Lerman served as Coordinator of Clinical Programs from 2006 until 2013. From 1996 until 2007, Lerman was Director of the Law and Public Policy Program. She attended Barnard College and NYU School of Law. She received an LL.M. in Advocacy from Georgetown University Law. Before joining the CUA faculty, Lerman was a staff attorney at the Center for Women Policy Studies, a Clinical Fellow at Antioch and Georgetown law schools, a law professor at West Virginia University, and an associate in a small law firm. She also taught at the law schools of American University and George Washington University. She started teaching professional responsibility in 1984.

Professor Lerman is co-author of Learning from Practice: A Professional Development Text for Legal Externs (2d ed. West 2007). She has written dozens of articles about lawyers, law firms, the legal profession, and legal education, including, for example, Blue-Chip Bilking: Regulation of Billing and Expense Fraud by Lawyers, 12 Geo. J. Leg. Ethics 205 (1999), and Lying to Clients, 138 U. Pa. L. Rev. 659 (1990). Lerman’s earlier writings focused on domestic violence law.

Professor Lerman has served as an expert witness on legal ethics issues in numerous malpractice cases and lawyer disciplinary matters. She has written, lectured, and consulted on issues relating to legal ethics and legal education at scores of conferences and law schools in the United States and abroad. She was a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States and to the Academic Specialists program of the U.S. Information Agency. Lerman taught comparative legal ethics and taught in CUA’s American Law Program at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She served as a faculty member with Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics.

Professor Lerman served as chair of the planning committee for the ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility and as chair of the AALS section on Professional Responsibility. She was a member of the DC Bar Legal Ethics Committee as well as the AALS Standing Committee on Bar Admission and Lawyer Performance.

Philip G. Schrag

Delaney Family Professor of Public Interest Law

Georgetown University

Philip G. Schrag is the Delaney Family Professor of Public Interest Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He attended Harvard College and Yale Law School. Before he started a career in law teaching, he was Assistant Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and in 1970 he became the first Consumer Advocate of the City of New York. A member of the founding generation of clinical law teachers, he developed clinics at Columbia Law School and the West Virginia University College of Law, as well as at Georgetown. During the administration of President Jimmy Carter, he was the Deputy General Counsel of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

At Georgetown, Professor Schrag directs the Center for Applied Legal Studies, an asylum and refugee clinic. He regularly teaches professional responsibility and has also taught consumer protection, federal income taxation, legislation, administrative law, and civil procedure. He has written 16 books and many articles on public interest law and legal education including, most recently, Baby Jails: The Fight to End the Incarceration of Refugee Children in America (University of California Press 2020). In 2007, he helped to persuade Congress to create the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, which provides partial student loan forgiveness for graduates who work for 10 years in public interest jobs. He has been honored with the Association of American Law Schools’ Deborah L. Rhode award for advancing public service opportunities in law schools through scholarship, service, and leadership; its William Pincus award for outstanding contributions to clinical legal education; Lexis Nexis’ Daniel Levy Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Immigration Law; the Outstanding Law School Faculty Award of Equal Justice Works for leadership in nurturing a spirit of public service in legal education and beyond; and Georgetown University’s Presidential Distinguished Teacher Scholar Award.

Professors Lerman and Schrag live in Arlington, Virginia. They have two adult children, Samuel Schrag Lerman and Sarah Lerman Schrag. Professor Schrag also is the father of David and Zachary Schrag.

Robert Rubinson

Robert Rubinson is Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law. He attended Columbia University, where he graduated summa cum laude, and NYU School of Law. He also taught for three years in the Lawyering Program at NYU. Before entering academia, Professor Rubinson was an associate attorney at a large law firm in New York and a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society’s Brooklyn Office for the Aging.

At UB, Professor Rubinson was Director of Clinical Education from 2004-2010 and 2012-2016. He has received the President’s Faculty Award and the Award for Outstanding Teaching by a full-time faculty member. He has taught professional responsibility for more than 20 years and has written and spoken widely on the subject to academic and practitioner audiences both nationally and internationally. He also has served as Reporter for the Maryland Court of Appeals Ethics 2002 Committee. He has consulted with Japanese law professors on the development of clinical legal education in Japan and written about legal ethics in that country.

A particular focus of his work has been on ethical issues relating to access to justice—an interest based on his experience as a lawyer both in a large firm and in a small legal services office. Professor Rubinson also specializes in alternative dispute resolution, especially mediation. He is co-author of Mediating Family Disputes: Theory and Practice (LexisNexis 2015), now in its second edition, as well as many other articles on the subject. He developed and is Co-director of UB’s Mediation Clinic for Families. His work has included exploring the confluence of legal ethics and mediation and the challenges of mediation programs serving low-income communities.

One of his articles, Client Counseling, Mediation, and Alternative Narratives of Dispute Resolution, 10 Clin. L Rev. 833 (2004), has been anthologized in a leading text used in law school clinical programs. Professor Rubinson is married to Dr. Randi E. Schwartz, a psychologist. He has two children, Stella and Leo.

Susan Martyn

Professor

University of Toledo

Susan Martyn is Distinguished University Professor and Stoepler Professor of Law and Values Emeritus at the University of Toledo College of Law, where she taught Legal Ethics, Torts, and Bioethics since 1980. She has also served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Marquette, George Washington, and Yale Law Schools and taught Legal Ethics at Mitchell Hamline School of Law.

Professor Martyn has been instrumental in developing the law governing lawyers. She acted as an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers (1987-2000) and was a member of the American Bar Association’s Ethics 2000 Commission, which redrafted the Model Rules of Professional Conduct (1997-2002). She has been a member of the Michigan, Ohio, and Supreme Court Bars, and served on the Ohio Supreme Court’s Task Force on the Rules of Professional Conduct (2003-2006). She has been a contributor to continuing legal education programs and served as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility from 2007-2010. She is a life member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow in the American Bar Foundation.

With Larry Fox, Professor Martyn has written a casebook, The Law Governing Lawyers: Model Rules, Restatement, and Other Sources of Law (joined by W. Bradley Wendel). Together, Professor Martyn and Mr. Fox have also authored Red Flags: A Lawyer's Handbook on Legal Ethics, Your Lawyer: A User’s Guide, How to Deal with Your Lawyer: Answers to Commonly Asked Questions, The Ethics of Representing Organizations: Legal Fictions for Clients, Fair Fight: Legal Ethics for Litigators, and Representing Clients: An Ethics Guide for Clinical Law Students and Emerging Lawyers. They have also contributed to and served as editors of A Century of Legal Ethics: Trial Lawyers and The ABA Canons of Professional Ethics.

Lawrence J. Fox

Partner, Drinker Biddle & Reath

Visiting Lecture in Law, Yale Law School

Lawrence J. Fox is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School, Partner at Schoeman Updike Kaufman & Gerber in New York City, and former Managing Partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in Philadelphia. Mr. Fox has been a trial lawyer specializing in securities litigation and the representation of lawyers. He was an advisor to The American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers project. He is a former member and Chair of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. He was a member of the American Bar Association Ethics 2000 project and he has written and spoken extensively on the subject of lawyers’ professional responsibility, giving lectures at more than thirty law schools. Mr. Fox is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and The American Bar Foundation, a former Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation, and a former Chair of the American Bar Association Death Penalty Representation Project. He served as a member of the ABA House of Delegates and was awarded the ABA President’s Medal in 2021 for rendering “conspicuous service to the cause of American jurisprudence."

Mr. Fox is the author of dozens of law review articles and several chapters in Legal Tender: A Lawyer’s Guide to Handling Professional Dilemmas and Raise the Bar: Real World Solutions for a Troubled Profession. He and Professor Martyn have published seven different professional responsibility books. Mr. Fox graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and cum laude from the Law School. He was Managing Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and clerked for Samuel J. Roberts, Justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Before joining Drinker Biddle & Reath he was a legal services lawyer at Community Action for Legal Services in New York City.

W. Bradley Wendel

Cornell University

Brad Wendel is a professor at Cornell Law School. Professor Wendel joined the Cornell faculty in 2004, after teaching at Washington and Lee Law School from 1999-2004. Before entering graduate school and law teaching, he was a product liability litigator at Bogle Gates in Seattle and a law clerk for Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His teaching interests are in the regulation of the legal profession and torts, and his research focuses on the application of moral and political philosophy to problems of legal ethics. Professor Wendel is the author of Examples & Explanations: Professional Responsibility, also published by Aspen Publishing.

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Edition

Sixth Edition

Publication date

2024-05-08

2024

Pages

912

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9798894100951

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Professional Responsibility

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