CrunchTime provides the right information, in the right format, at the right time. If you learn best through application flow charts, get your CrunchTime early in the semester and use it as a visual aid throughout your course. Each title offers capsule summaries of major points of law and critical issues, exam tips for identifying common traps and pitfalls, sample exam and essay questions with model answers, and recommended approaches for crafting essays that will get winning grades!

Product Description: Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Lawrence Sterne's novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters – such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman – take centre stage, at the expense of the actual life events the book sets out to depict...read more

Mastering Professional Responsibility achieves the goal of the entire Mastering series by presenting a concise yet understandable explanation of the rules and concepts of lawyer professional responsibility.The author's straightforward treatment of the subject makes the book easy to use and extraordinarily helpful in simplifying complex issues. This book is designed to be a secondary source for students enrolled in a law school professional responsibility course. The book discusses the rules and concepts covered in the typical professional responsibility course in a step-by-step manner, replete with simple examples in which the rules and concepts are applied. These are also the rules and concepts tested by the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam which is a requirement for admission for most states. Thus, the book is a good preparatory tool for that test as well as being an excellent aid for the law school course.

Product Description: An indispensable tool for students taking courses in professional responsibility, this book contains only the essential resources: the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the official comments; a selection of the most distinctive state variations; and 116 practice questions, in the format used in the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE), together with answers and detailed analyses...read more

This highly successful textbook provides complete coverage of ethical principles from the perspective of the practicing paralegal Features: Comprehensive coverage of all the major areas of legal ethics, placing special emphasis on how the rules affect paralegals. Authoritative presentation combined with clear and readable pedagogy . Each chapter begins with an overview, followed by well-written text in a well-organized format. Key terms are introduced in italics. Review questions and discussion questions reinforce the material. Research projects at the end of each chapter provide ways to enhance and apply what has been learned. Coverage tailored to the needs of paralegals. Each chapter includes cases that demonstrate how the principles and rules are applied. Useful appendices provide the text of relevant ethical codes. Cannon is a well-known and respected leader in the paralegal field, and her name alone attracts many users to the book. The book is easily adaptable to courses of different lengths, and can be used in substantive courses for additional ethics coverage. Teaching package includes an Instructor s Manual with Test Bank and PowerPoint slides. New to the Sixth Edition: Ethics rules and case law concerning ethics and related subjects updated throughout the text. More coverage added on impact of technology in all ethical areas. New hypotheticals, research problems, and class discussion questions. Includes updates on trends in the paralegal field and ethics.

Product Description: Ethics for Trusts and Estates Practitioners provides an authoritative, insider's perspective on understanding and avoiding ethical conflicts in attorney-client relationships. Featuring experienced partners from law firms across the nation, these experts define the responsibilities of beneficiaries and fiduciaries and outline the codes of conduct associated with each...read more

Product Description: Professional Conduct and the Law offers a survey of ethical rules, disciplinary actions, and legal malpractice principles, plus cases, legal forms, and risk management documents for lawyers. The legal profession is experiencing an attorney misconduct problem resulting in an increase in disciplinary actions and malpractice claims being filed by injured persons...read more

Product Description: Ethical Problems in Federal Tax Practice provides clear explanations of the relevant rules and regulations that apply to tax lawyers and organizes the materials by the various functions a lawyer serves: litigator, advisor and counselor...read more

Product Description: Keep your students engaged and bring the abstract concepts of ethics in the workplace to life by introducing The Aspen Video Series: Lessons in Ethics to your next course in Professional Responsibility, now available with Concise Guide To Paralegal Ethics, Fourth Edition...read more

Product Description: This book examines a prosecutor’s ethical responsibilities throughout the criminal justice process, and explores legal and ethical constraints on prosecutorial discretion. Topics are ordered sequentially as they occur in the progression of a typical criminal case, including the prosecutor’s role in the conduct of investigations, contacting and interviewing witnesses, grand jury practice, selecting charges, pre-trial discovery, plea bargaining, jury selection, trial conduct, sentencing, media contacts and post- conviction remedies...read more

Product Description: This text is directed toward the learning outcomes students need and want in a basic professional responsibility course: mastering the doctrine regarding the regulation of law practice (including express instruction on reading rules and researching the law of professional responsibility); forming a vision of themselves as an attorney and a career plan that fits that vision; learning to identify the risks of discipline, liability, or business and reputational loss; and acquiring skills to practice law in a way that reduces those risks...read more

Product Description: Many law professors aim to probe deep ethical issues in class. But they also need to cover the material that the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination requires. The Rotunda Nutshell fulfils that need as it digests the Model Rules in an engaging, analytical, and often critical way...read more

Product Description: Even lawyers who obey the law often seem to act unethically--interfering with the discovery of truth, subverting justice, and inflicting harm on innocent people. Standard arguments within legal ethics attempt to show why it is permissible to do something as a lawyer that it would be wrong to do as an ordinary person...read more