Hot Topics in the Legal Profession - 2017

Current important events in the legal profession and legal ethics with useful research and analysis of the rules and the professions current challenges are analyzed by Tulane law students who participated spring 2017 in an Advanced Legal Profession Seminar. The contents of the volume include: FOREWORD: Ethics and the Legal Profession in a Decade of Continuing Change and Challenge by Steven Alan Childress PART I. APPLICATION OF RULES TO NEW SETTINGS AND IN NEW WAYS 1 - Duty of Loyalty or Limited Liability: How Close is Too Close for Lawyer Disqualification? by Joshua Sanchez-Secor 2 - Prosecutorial Misconduct and Wrongful Convictions: A Plague Upon Our Criminal Justice System? by Jessica Dennis 3 - Attorney Sexual Misconduct: The ABA Update of Model Rule 8.4 the Addition to Model Rule 1.8 and the Consequences of Discrimination on Women in the Legal Profession by Sarah Cullum 4 - Rule 4.2: Communication Without Representation by Corey Friedman PART II. INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES 5 - Law Placement of International Students in U.S. Law Firms by Qinyu Fan 6 - Development of the Legal Profession in China by Shu Chen PART III. THE LEGAL PROFESSIONS CHALLENGES AND FUTURE 7 - The Cost of Getting Ahead: An Examination of Adderall Abuse Effects and Solutions Among Law Schools by Marissa Delgado 8 - The Binary Barrister: A Review of Increased Automation in Legal Practice by Vincent Yadgood As the latest entry in the Benefit Tulane PILF Series proceeds from every purchase of this book in ebook or print formats will benefit Tulane Law Schools Public Interest Law Foundation a nonprofit student organization which supports placing students into public interest jobs and providing indigent representation.