Instructions in the file

  1. Using Westlaw or Lexis or Google, or other internet search engines, find cases, on different areas of ethics law which may be from the following areas:

 

-Regulation of the Legal Profession

-Unauthorized Practice of Law

-Confidentiality

-Conflicts of Interest—The Duty of Loyalty

-Advertising and Solicitation

-Fair Fees and Client Trust Accounts

-Competence and Negligence

-The Duty of Diligent Representation

-The Umbrella Duty of Integrity

 

  1. Finding cases from sources apart from our textbook is the starting point.

  2. Prepare case briefs for the 5 cases, using any acceptable format or the ones provided by the instructor in Canvas.

  3. Case briefs must not exceed one typewritten page in length with top, bottom and side margins set at 1 inch. Font size cannot be less than 11.

A research trail, which must provide detail as to how each case was located, must be prepared, and retained by the students in the event the instructor requests it.

Total pages should not exceed 10. All your work should be on one document.

This should be in IRAC format