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Bundle: Professional Responsibility in Focus, Third Edition and The Law Governing Lawyers: Model Rules, Restatement, and Other Sources of Law 2025-2026

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  • John P. Sahl
  • R. Michael Cassidy
  • Benjamin P. Cooper
  • Margaret C. Tarkington
  • Susan R. Martyn
  • Lawrence J. Fox
  • W. Bradley Wendel
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Publication Date
2025-12-22
Edition
Third Edition
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Bundle: Print + eBook - This bundle includes both print and digital versions of ISBN 9798892074940 and a digital-only version of supplement ISBN 9798894107387.

Bundle: eBook - This bundle includes a digital-only version of ISBN 9798892074957 and a digital-only version of supplement ISBN 9798894107387.

Professional Responsibility in Focus, Third Edition provides a user-friendly, problem-based approach to learning the law governing the legal profession, covering subjects including the attorney-client relationship, competence, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, the lawyer as an advocate, special issues in criminal practice, issues concerning the delivery of legal services in general, access to justice and judicial ethics.


Bundle also includes The Law Governing Lawyers: Model Rules, Restatement, and Other Sources of Law 2025-2026


 

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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.

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. She has also served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Marquette, George Washington, and Yale Law Schools.

Professor Martyn has been instrumental in developing the law governing lawyers, serving as an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers (1987-2000), and as a member of the American Bar Association’s Ethics 2000 Commission, which updated 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 also was a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (2007-2010), and is a life member of the American Law Institute.

With Larry Fox, Professor Martyn has written a casebook, Traversing the Ethical Minefield: Problems, Law, and Professional Responsibility, and edited 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 the Edwin H. Woodruff Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, where he teaches Professional Responsibility, Torts, Products Liability, and Mass Torts. Professor Wendel is the co-author of a casebook, Hazard, Koniak, Cramton, Cohen & Wendel, The Law and Ethics of Lawyering, and the author of a textbook, Professional Responsibility: Examples and Explanations. He has published two books on theoretical topics in legal ethics, Lawyers and Fidelity to Law (Princeton University Press 2010), and Canceling Lawyers (Oxford University Press 2024), along with numerous law review articles. From 2011 through 2012, Professor Wendel served as a Reporter to a working group within the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, which considered amendments to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. He is currently a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct (COSAC).

Before joining the Cornell faculty, Professor Wendel clerked for the Honorable Andrew J. Kleinfeld of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, practiced law in Seattle, obtained a graduate degree in legal philosophy, and was on the faculty of Washington and Lee Law School.
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Third Edition
Publication date
2025-12-22
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2025
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