LAW 6020 - Professional Responsibility.

3 Credit Hours

Requirements: LAW 6020 must be taken before or concurrently with LAW 6030.
Description
This is a second year required course. This course focuses on the development of professional identity, ethical decision making, and the role of lawyers in society, and covers confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and the interpretation of the rules of professional conduct. As prescribed by the instructor, the course may also include discussion of other topics such as bar admission, attorney discipline, malpractice, ineffective assistance of counsel in criminal cases, judicial ethics, fees, advertising, solicitation and the ethics of the adversary system.