RESOURCES [last updated November 17, 2009 ]

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

The following references include material specifically mentioned in class as well as additional information related to class lectures and discussion.

Class One

1. Who Regulates Georgia's Lawyers?
2. Georgia: Disciplinary Procedures (excerpts) (download in MS Word)
3. Georgia: Levels of Discipline (Download in MS Word)
4. Georgia: Sample Orders of Discipline (Bar Journal June 2009) (pdf)
5. Overview of Michigan's Attorney Discipline System (pdf)
6. Ways to Get Advice on the Application of the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct (download in MS Word)
7. Georgia Rule 4-403: Formal Advisory Opinions
8. Georgia: Sample Publication of Formal Advisory Opinions (Bar Journal 2009) (pdf)
9. ABA Canons of Professional Ethics (1908) (excerpts) (pdf)
10. Georgia Standard of Conduct 28 (Pre 2001 rule on confidentiality)
11. Georgia Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6 (current rule on confidentiality)
12. Guide to Interpreting the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct
13. ABA Canons of Professional Ethics (1908) (excerpts) (pdf)
14. Hazard & Hodes, The Law of Lawyering (1985)
15. Margaret Love, ABA Ethics 2000 Commission
16. ABA House of Delegates: Summary of Actions on Ethics 2000 Recommendations
17. Malpractice Guide
18. Lessons from the Carnegie Report on Teaching Professional Responsibility (pdf)
    
    
    Class Two

1. What is Their Story? Powerpoint or Outline in MS Word
2. Cunningham, "What Clients Want" (2006) (pdf)
   
   
   Class Three
   
3. Lessons from Gandhi on Becoming a Lawyer (pdf)
4. History of Confidentiality Exceptions
5. MR 3.3: Comment 10 (explaining "reasonable remedial measures")
   
   Class Six
   History of Confidentiality Exceptions-Expanded

-- Paula Jones v William Jefferson Clinton
--- Timeline
---- Jan 17, 1998 Deposition of President Clinton
---- Sep 30, 1998 Letter from Robert Bennett to Judge Wright

Class Seven
Darrow Chronology
Conflict of Interest Outline

Class Eight
--Control and Communication Outline

Class Ten
-- Nissan Chart

Class Eleven
-- McKenzie Construction v Maynard (summary)
-- Fees/Advertising Outline
-- Sample Client Engagement Letter (Georgia Bar web site)
-- MODEL CLIENT ENGAGEMENT LETTER © Needle & Rosenberg, P.C
-- Exceptions under Georgia Rule 1.6
-- Comparison of Georgia Rule 1.7 with ABA MR 1.7