LAW 6829 Professional Responsibility
Professor Vernellia R. Randall
The University of Dayton School of Law

 "A lawyer, as a member of the legal profession, is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system
and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice."
ABA Model Rules for Professional Conduct.
 

Please notify me of any typo, misspelling, etc.
 

00 Introduction x
Syllabus x
UNITS
01 Lawyer-Client x
02 Duty to System x
03 Modern Practice x
04 Exam-Taking x
 
ETHICS WEBSITES ABA Center x American Legal Ethics x Ethics and Lawyering x Ethics on Findlaw x Freuvigek on Conflicts x LegalEthics.com x Legal Ethics Forum x Legal Profession Blog ProfLaw (Westlaw) x Westlaw on Ethics x
 

 

                 

 
There will be two (one hour) multiple choice exams and a two hour final. The exams will be cumulative meaning that they will test not only most recently taught knowledge but also previously tested knowledge. The exams will be structured similar to the PMBR,
 
The lessons will include the following:
  • Overview of Multiple Choice Questions
  • Recognizing Distractors and Foils
  • Play the Right Role
  • Strategies  and Tactics
  • Analyzing Multiple Choice Questions
  • Analyzing Responses
  • How Options Can be Wrong
  • How to Guess Intelligently
  • Taking the Multiple Choice Test
  • Varieties in the Form of the Question
  • Varieties in the Nature of the Question
Actual Exams will be:
  • June 12 -   Multiple Choice Examination, 1 hour; can be taken anytime between 8:30 am to 3:00pm; check with the registrar. (10 pts)
  • July 17 - Multiple Choice Examination, 1 hour; can be taken anytime between 8:30 am to 3:00pm; check with the registrar. (10 pts)
  • August 7 -  Multiple Choice Examination, 2  hour; can be taken anytime between 8:30 am to 3:00pm; check with the registrar. (Pass/Fail) If you decide to take the MPRE as your final you must submit the results in order to receive a final grade.
    • NOTICE: Also if you are planning to graduate in the fall, you should know that if you take the MPRE, your grades won't be issue in time for you retake the course in the fall.  However, you should know after the 2nd exam how you are doing in the course and the last exam is only worth 10% . I don't foresee this as a problem because the whole point of my teaching pedagogy is to make sure the student knows how they are doing through out the course.
 

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