Professional Responsibility · Sixth Edition
Traversing the Ethical Minefield: Problems, Law, and Professional Responsibility - Sixth Edition - Susan R. Martyn
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Traversing the Ethical Minefield: Problems, Law, and Professional Responsibility, Sixth Edition Susan R. Martyn
ISBN: 9798894108926
The Law Governing Lawyers: Problems and Materials, Sixth Edition
This casebook provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the law governing lawyers through carefully selected cases, problems, ethics opinions, notes, and practical materials. Its innovative approach combines hypothetical problems involving the fictional law firm “Martyn and Fox” with primary legal sources to teach the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers. Tables, diagrams, and thematic notes help students analyze ethical dilemmas and understand the legal and professional responsibilities of attorneys. Its manageable length provides comprehensive coverage while keeping the material focused and teachable.
New to the 6th Edition
- Welcomes new co-author Marsha Griggs, a leading scholar of bar admission and attorney regulation, bringing experience in legal practice, teaching, and comparative regulatory studies.
- Expanded coverage of artificial intelligence and its implications for legal practice, including attorney regulation, client confidentiality, and attorney-client privilege.
- Updated treatment of ABA Model Rule 1.14 and its significant revisions concerning clients with diminished decision-making capacity.
- New cases, including Kentucky Bar Association v. Helmers, In re William A. Goebel, United States v. Heppner, and Mata v. Avianca, Inc.
- New ethics notes, revised problems, diagrams, and charts.
- Updated discussion of Rule 1.14.
Key Features and Benefits
- Comprehensive coverage: Combines problems, cases, ethics opinions, explanatory notes, afterwords, and tables to explore professional responsibility issues and available remedies.
- Accessible problems: Encourages nuanced analysis of the Model Rules, Restatement, and case law, with exercises suitable for both small and large classes.
- Thematic organization: Examines recurring issues through four central themes:
- Lawyers’ Roles: The consequences of identifying too closely with clients or maintaining too much distance.
- The Law Governing Lawyers: Professional discipline, tort liability, and equitable remedies, including disqualification, fee forfeiture, constructive trusts, and procedural sanctions.
- The Bounds of the Law: Professional conduct rules, court orders, fraud, criminal law, and applicable statutes.
- Lawyers and Clients: Ethical challenges in representing pro bono clients, criminal defendants, insurance clients, organizations, and government entities.
- Manageable length: Provides substantial coverage in a format suitable for a typical professional responsibility course.
- Innovative Teacher’s Manual: Offers short answers, policy analysis, additional hypothetical problems, and extensive citations to relevant cases and materials.
- Annual supplement: Includes the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the Restatement, and the Code of Judicial Conduct.
Traversing the Ethical Minefield: Problems, Law, and Professional Responsibility 2026 Sixth Edition Susan R. Martyn
ISBN: 9798894108926, 979-8894108926, 979-8-8941-0892-6, 979-8-89410-892-6
Susan R. Martyn
Lawrence J. Fox
Ana Pottratz Acosta
Ashley M. London
Marsha Griggs
Details
- ISBN
- 9798894108926
- Edition
- Sixth Edition
- Publisher
- Aspen Publishing
- Publication Date
- November 2026
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