Database Name: Legal Ethics - The Lawyer's Deskbook on Professional Responsibility
Database Identifier: LEGETH
Coverage
Current through 2009-2010 edition
Content Highlights:
Legal Ethics-The Lawyer's Deskbook on Professional Responsibility, by Ronald D. Rotunda, provides commentary on the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct, as well as references to current case law and the Restatement of the Law 3d - The Law Governing Lawyers.
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Contents
The LEGETH database contains the full text of Legal Ethics - The Lawyer's Deskbook of Professional Responsibility, a one volume treatise organized around the ABA's Model Rules. It provides thorough author commentary from authors John Dzienkowski and Ronald Rotunda, along with references to current case law and to the ALI's Restatement of the Law 3d - Law Governing Lawyers. A document is a section of text, Model Rule, Appendix, or Canon.
Derivation
The database is current through the 2009-2010 edition.
| CITE AS: |
| Legal Ethics - The Lawyer's Deskbook on | Legal Ethics - Law. Deskbk. |
| Professional Responsibility | Prof. Resp. |
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