Bundle: Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, Sixth Edition and PracticePerfect

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Authors

Lisa G. Lerman
Philip G. Schrag
Robert Rubinson
Andrew M. Perlman
John Rappaport
Melissa B. Shultz

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Book length

912 pages

Publication Date

2024-02-02

Edition

Sixth Edition

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Print Bundle - This bundle includes a print version of ISBN 9781543846218 as well as PracticePerfect, ISBN 9798886145465.

More about Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, Sixth Edition, this problem-based 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 PracticePerfect: Professional Responsibility, a visually engaging, interactive study aid designed to help students review core course topics and test their ability to recall and correctly apply the law. PracticePerfect contains a library of animated videos that explain course topics through hypothetical situations, quizzes to test knowledge and understanding, and progress trackers so students can identify their strengths and weaknesses in the course. Designed to work with all major casebooks, PracticePerfect is the ideal study companion for today's law students.

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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.

Andrew M. Perlman

Professor of Law

Suffolk University

Andrew M. Perlman is Dean and Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School. Professor Perlman's work focuses on civil procedure, professional responsibility, and law practice technology and innovation. Professor Perlman served as the Chief Reporter for the ABA Commission on Ethics 2020, which successfully proposed numerous changes to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and related policies to address advances in technology and the increasing globalization of law practice.

He is also a member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct and the Chair of the Section on Professional Responsibility of the Association of American Law Schools (2014). In addition to his writings in civil procedure and professional responsibility, Professor Perlman helped to establish — and is the inaugural Director of — Suffolk’s Institute on Law Practice Technology and Innovation, which offers programs, courses, public lectures, and other information designed to educate students, the legal profession, and the public about technology’s transformation of the practice of law and the delivery of legal services. He is also the Director of the Law School's Concentration in Legal Technology and Innovation.

Prior to joining the Suffolk faculty, Professor Perlman clerked for a federal district court judge and practiced as a litigation associate with the Chicago law firm of Schiff Hardin. He is an honors graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, and he received an LL.M from Columbia, where he was an Associate-in-Law and taught legal research and writing.

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Edition

Sixth Edition

Publication date

2024-02-02

2024

Pages

912

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9798892076036

Subject

Professional Responsibility

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