Ethics & Integrity in Law & Business
Avoiding "Club Fed"
by Michael Ross
2011
Tags: Legal Profession/Professional Responsibility, Professionalism/Law Practice
Teacher's Manual available
214 pp $100.00
ISBN 978-0-76984-691-0
eISBN 978-0-32717-611-4
Ethics & Integrity in Law & Business: Avoiding "Club Fed" offers a new and refreshing approach to the Professional Responsibility course. This book is designed to be focused, practical, interesting and fun!
It is focused:
- On law firm practice (which is where most graduates start their careers)
- On business clients? issues (which is what most law firm lawyers do)
- On only relevant rules
It includes practical:
- Recurring, real-world situations
- Decision-making based upon available information (not a complete case record)
- Decision-making under pressure from senior partners and clients
- Steps and arguments to encourage ethical conduct
- Consequences of saying and doing nothing
Some of the interesting materials offered are:
- High-profile cases reported on in the media
- Challenging conflicts of interest
And, this fun new book:
- Provides quotations from philosophers, authors, scientists, judges, economists and humorists; and
- Includes comics from "The Wall Street Journal," P. C. Vey, and others.
Comp Copy If you are a professor teaching in this field you may request a complimentary copy.