Product Description
Product Overview:
With Law School Legends, you’ll get a brilliant law school professor explaining an entire subject to you in one simple, dynamic lecture. Law School Legends makes even the most difficult concepts crystal clear. You’ll understand the big picture and how all the concepts fit together. You’ll get hundreds of examples and exam tips, honed over decades in the classroom. But best of all, you’ll get insights you can only get from America’s greatest law professors.
Overview of Major Topics Covered:
Regulation of Attorneys; Who Regulates; Board Admission; Unauthorized Practice; Compliance; Discipline; Judgments; Lawyer-Client Relationship; Duty to Accept & Reject Representation; Withdrawal; Attorney’s Duties to Clients; Conflict of Interest; Disqualification; Clients; Client Interests; Competence; Following Client Instructions; Confidences; Integrity of the System; Candor, Fairness to Opposing parties; Trial Tactics; Special Duties of Prosecutors; Voluntary Pro Bono; Advisor; Permissible Communications with Non-Clients-Adversaries, Witnesses, Juries, Court, Press; Regulation of Market for Legal Services; Solicitation; Law Firms; Fees; Client Money and Property; Fee Splitting; Judicial Ethics; Disqualification, Conduct, Political Activities
About the Professor:
Professor Erwin Chemerinsky is an alumnus of Northwestern University and Harvard Law School. He has taught at DePaul University, Loyola of Los Angeles; UCLA, and University of Southern California Law Schools, and is currently the Alston and Bird Professor of Law at Duke Law School. He is the author of numerous books and articles about Constitutional Law (Aspen), Interpreting the Constitution (Praeger), and Federal Jurisdiction (Aspen).