RESOURCES [last updated December 6, 2010 ]
[These materials are posted on Resources on for your information but the fact that information is posted here does not make it required reading for the course. Only readings and assignments listed on the syllabus are required for class and tested on the final exam.]

State Bar of Georgia Web Site
---Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct
---State Bar Handbook

American Bar Association Web Site
--ABA Center for Professional Responsibility Web Site
-- ABA Joint Committee on Lawyer Regulation (focuses on implementation of recent changes to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct )
--ABA Ethics 2000 Commission Web Site
----Model Rules: web site version
-----Ethics 2000 Report on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct [redlined to show changes from the 1983 Model Rules and Reporter's Explanation memos regarding the changes].

Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam
-National Conference of Bar Examiners Web Site
-- Information on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination

 

Class One
-- Powerpoint on Lt. Commander Charles Swift (ppt) (pdf)

Class Two
-- Powerpoint on Lesson for Teaching Professional Responsibility from the Carnegie Report and Four Component Model (ppt) (pdf)

Class Four

  1. Who Regulates Georgia's Lawyers?
  2. Georgia: Levels of Discipline
  3. Overview of Michigan's Attorney Discipline System (pdf)
  4. Georgia: Sample Orders of Discipline (Bar Journal June 2009) (pdf)
  5. Georgia: Sample Publication of Formal Advisory Opinions (Bar Journal 2009) (pdf)
  6. Guide to Interpreting the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct
  7. ABA Canons of Professional Ethics (1908) (excerpts) (pdf)
  8. Georgia Standard of Conduct 28 (Pre 2001 rule on confidentiality)
  9. Comparison of DR 4-101 with GRPC 1.6
  10. Comparison of 1983 and 2002 versions of ABA Model Rule 1.6
  11. Comparison of Current MR 1.6 and GRPC 1.6 (Word document) (pdf)


Class Seven

  1. History of Confidentiality Exceptions
  2. Comparison of Current MR 3.3 and GRPC 3.3 (Word document) (pdf)
  3. Audio of class on Sep 28 (MP3 file)

Class Nine: Audio of class on Oct 19 (MP3 file)

Class Ten: Audio of class on Oct 26 (MP3 file)

Class Eleven:

  1. Nissan Motor Corp. v. Orozco, 595 So.2d 240 (Fla.App.1992) [Review Questions on Successive Conflict are drawn from the fact pattern in this case]
  2. Comparison of Current ABA Model Rule 1.10 and GRPC 1.10 (Word document) (pdf)
  3. Comparison of Current ABA Model Rule 1.7 and GRPC 1.7 (Word document) (pdf)
  4. OPM Exercise Presentation (ppt) (pdf)
  5. Review Questions on RPC 1.9, 1.10, 1.11 with correct answer marked


Class Twelve

  1. NPR interview with Lt. Commander Charles Swift (excerpt) (audio file)
  2. Supplemental Course evaluation (Survey Monkey)
  3. Audio of class on Nov 16 (MP3 file): Part 1 Part 2

    Leading Cases on Advertising and Solicitation (not assigned for syllabus or discussed in class -- provided as resource for bar review and future practice)
  4. Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, 433 U.S. 350 (1977)
  5. Ohralik v Ohio State Bar Ass'n, 436 U.S. 477 (1978)
  6. In re Primus, 436 U.S. 412 (1978)
  7. Florida Bar v, Went For It, Inc, 513 U.S. 618 (1995) (Florida Bar Rules prohibiting personal injury lawyers from sending targeted direct-mail solicitations to victims and their relatives for 30 days following an accident or disaster did not violate 1st Amendment)
  8. Falanga v State Bar of Georgia, 150 F.3d 1333 (11th 1998) (Georgia's rules prohibiting lawyers and their agents from soliciting professional employment from potential clients face-to-face and without invitation survives First Amendment commercial speech scrutiny)
  9. In the Matter of Anonymous, 775 N.E. 2d 1094 (Ind. 2002) (example of deceptive lawyer advertisement)