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Bundle: Professional Responsibility in Focus, Second Edition with Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law: Model Rules, State Variations, and Practice Questions 2025 and 2026 Edition and Connected Quizzing

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Authors
  • John P. Sahl
  • R. Michael Cassidy
  • Benjamin P. Cooper
  • Margaret C. Tarkington
  • Lisa G. Lerman
  • Philip G. Schrag
  • Anjum Gupta
Series / Aspen Bundle Series
BOOKMARK
Book length
678 pages
Publication Date
2024-11-21
Edition
Second Edition
Teaching Materials
NO
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Print Bundle - This bundle includes both print and digital versions of ISBN 9781543809275 with a print version of supplement ISBN 9798892077668 as well as Connected Quizzing, ISBN 9781543814491.

Print + Digital Bundle - This bundle includes both print and digital versions of ISBN 9781543809275 a digital-only version of supplement ISBN 9798892077682 as well as Connected Quizzing, ISBN 9781543814491.

Digital Bundle - This bundle includes a digital-only version of ISBN 9781543835267 a digital-only version of supplement ISBN 9798892077682 as well as Connected Quizzing, ISBN 9781543814491.

 

More about Professional Responsibility in Focus, the Second Edition offers a comprehensive, updated exposition of the law governing lawyers and judges. Real-world scenarios throughout the text provide students numerous opportunities for students to apply what they have learned and solidify their understanding of important concepts.

Bundle includes Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law: Model Rules, State Variations, and Practice Questions 2025 and 2026 Edition. An indispensable tool for students taking courses in professional responsibility, this book contains only the essential resources: the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the official comments; a selection of the most distinctive state variations; and more than 130 original practice questions, in the format used in the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE), along with answers and detailed analyses.

Bundle also includes Connected Quizzing. Delivered through CasebookConnect.com, Connected Quizzing is an easy-to-use formative assessment tool that tests law students’ understanding and provides timely feedback to improve learning outcomes. Connected Quizzing requires a Professor Course Code to access the quizzes.


 
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About the authors
John P. Sahl
University of Akron School of Law

Jack Sahl is the Inaugural Joseph G. Miller Professor of Law and the Director of the Miller-Becker Center for Professional Responsibility at the University of Akron School of Law where he regularly teaches professional responsibility, evidence, and sports law. Professor Sahl is a frequent international and national speaker on the subject of professional responsibility and serves as a consultant and expert witness in the field. He is the Chair of the Publications Board of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility and a member of the Coordinating Council of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility. He is a former Chair of the Editorial Board of the ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct and served on the ABA Standing Committee on Professional Discipline. Professor Sahl was also Chair of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Professional Responsibility Section.

Professor Sahl is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association Ethics Committee and of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association Ethics & Professionalism Committee, where he once served as chair. He was also appointed by the Ohio Supreme Court to serve on the Unauthorized Practice of Law Commission.

Professor Sahl clerked for Chief Judge William Holloway Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He also served as senior counsel to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism and Property Rights of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee.

R. Michael Cassidy
Boston College Law School

Professor R. Michael Cassidy teaches and writes in the areas of Criminal Law, Evidence, and Professional Responsibility. He is considered an expert on the subject of prosecutorial ethics and provides training nationally to public sector attorneys on their responsibilities under the Rules of Professional Conduct. Among his many professional and community activities, Professor Cassidy has served on the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission, on the Massachusetts Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct, and as an elected member of the American Law Institute. Cassidy was awarded the AALS Professional Responsibility Section "Zacharias Prize" for the best legal ethics article published in 2011.

Benjamin P. Cooper
University of Mississippi School of Law

Ben Cooper is the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Frank Montague, Jr. Professor of Legal Studies and Professionalism at the University of Mississippi School of Law. A member of the faculty since 2007, Professor Cooper teaches Legal Profession, Civil Procedure, and an Advanced Legal Ethics seminar. He writes, speaks, and consults on legal ethics and the law governing lawyers. Professor Cooper’s articles have appeared in a variety of journals, including the Wake Forest Law Review, the Cardozo Law Review, the Cincinnati Law Review, the Baylor Law Review, Legal Ethics, and The Professional Lawyer.

Professor Cooper serves as a member of the Mississippi Bar’s Ethics Committee, the Mississippi Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules, and the Executive Committee of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on Professional Responsibility. He is also the United States Reporter for the Reports, Comments and Notes Section of the international journal Legal Ethics. In addition, Professor Cooper recently completed his work as Co-Reporter for the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services. The Commission’s Final Report can be found here.

Before joining the faculty, Professor Cooper practiced law in both the public and private sector. After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Anthony J. Scirica of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Cooper then joined the United States Department of Justice via the Department’s Honor Program and, from 1998-2001, was a Trial Attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division, where he defended the legality of federal statutes and programs. From 2001 until he joined the faculty in 2007, Professor Cooper practiced commercial litigation and higher education law in the private sector, first at Kirkland & Ellis in New York and then at Pepper Hamilton in Philadelphia, and gained admission to the partnership at each firm. Professor Cooper received his B.A. with honors from Amherst College in 1994 and his J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 1997, where he was a member of the editorial board of the University of Chicago Law Review.

Margaret C. Tarkington
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Margaret Tarkington is a Professor of Law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, where she teaches Professional Responsibility, Federal Courts, Civil Procedure, and a Constitutional Law Seminar entitled Attorney Regulation and the First Amendment. Her scholarly work addresses the intersection of lawyer regulation, the First Amendment, and the overall administration of justice. She has served as an expert consultant on disciplinary proceedings brought against attorneys for their speech, association, and petitioning, and she just completed Voice of Justice: Reclaiming the First Amendment Rights of Lawyers for Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2018). Professor Tarkington serves as the 2018 Chair of the AALS Professional Responsibility Section. She was awarded the 2015 Indiana University Trustees’ Teaching Award. Prior to joining the Indiana University McKinney faculty in 2011, Professor Tarkington taught for four years at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah, where she received the SBA Award for Professor of the Year for First Year Courses. In 2010-2011, she was a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She previously practiced law in New York, Indiana, and Utah.

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.

Anjum Gupta
Associate Professor of Law
Rutgers School of Law - Newark

Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, and Professor of Law

Professor Gupta serves as Professor of Law, Judge Chester J. Straub Scholar, Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, and Associate Dean for Clinical Education at Rutgers Law School. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, Professor Gupta served as Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at the University of Baltimore School of Law. She also served as a Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Center for Applied Legal Studies at Georgetown Law and at the Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall University School of Law, where she supervised students and represented clients in cases involving asylum, human trafficking, domestic violence, immigrant labor rights, and criminal immigration issues. Professor Gupta clerked for the Honorable Chester J. Straub of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Charles P. Sifton of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

The Immigrant Rights Clinic represents detained and non-detained immigrants seeking various forms of relief before immigration courts, the Department of Homeland Security, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the federal courts of appeals. Professor Gupta has authored numerous amicus briefs before the federal courts of appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. She also teaches non-clinical courses in refugee law and professional responsibility. Professor Gupta was twice elected to serve on the national board of the Clinical Legal Education Association (and she recently ended her term as Co-President of CLEA), and she has spoken at or organized numerous regional and national conferences in immigration law and clinical education. Her scholarship focuses on immigration and refugee law, with a particular focus on gender-based claims for relief, and has been published in various law reviews, including the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, the Michigan Law Review Online, the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, the Colorado Law Review, and the Indiana Law Journal. In 2017, Professor Gupta was awarded the Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence in recognition of her teaching accomplishments at Rutgers.

Professor Gupta received her B.A. with high honors in psychology and women’s studies from the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor and her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was an Equal Justice America Fellow, Director of the Temporary Restraining Order Project Domestic Violence Clinic, Director of the Rebellious Lawyering Conference, and an editorial board member of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. She also worked at the ACLU Immigrant Rights Project and the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
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Edition
Second Edition
Publication date
2024-11-21
Copyright Year
2024
Pages
678
Connected eBook Print + Digital Bundle
9798894104034
Connected eBook Print + Multi Digital Bundle
9798894104171
Digital Bundle
9798894104188
Subject
Professional Responsibility
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