RESOURCES [last updated November 28, 2012 ]
[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.]

State Bar of Georgia Web Site
---Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct
-- Formal Advisory Opinions: Indexed by GRPC Number
-- Formal Advisory Opinions: Indexed by Topic
-- Advisory Opinions listed Chronologically
-- Georgia Code of Professional Responsibility and Disciplinary Standards in effect prior to January 1, 2001 (pdf)
---State Bar Handbook

American Bar Association Web Site
--ABA Center for Professional Responsibility 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

Materials Used in Class

Cumulative Quiz Scores, including Peer Evaluation Score, converted to Grades (Final as of November 26, 2012)
-- listed by Device ID #
-- listed from High to Low Grade

Criteria used for scoring Peer Evaluation Memos

Class One

Class Three
Class 3 Quiz with correct answers marked
-- Perfect score would be 9 points. After taking appeals into account, high score was 8, low score was 2, median score was 6.
Successful appeal of Question 3
Successful appeal of Question 7

Class Four
Class 4 Quiz with correct answers marked
-- Perfect score would be 7 points. Before taking appeals into account, high score is 7, low score is 1, median score is 5. (Five perfect scores, nine students missed only one.)

Class Five
Class 5 Quiz with correct answers marked
Quiz Scores
-- listed by Device ID #
-- listed from High to Low Score

Understanding the difference between attorney-client privilege and the duty of confidentiality

Class Six
Class 6 Quiz
Quiz Scores (after deciding appeals)
-- listed by Device ID #
-- listed from High to Low Score
Audio
-- 0:00 - 36:14 (1st Simon meeting)
-- 36:14 - 46:00 (Instructions for 2nd Simon meeting in Class 7)
-- 41:00 - 49:15 (Video of Frank Armani)
-- 50:00 - 1:07 (Quiz)

Class Eight
Class 8 Quiz
Quiz Scores (reposted Nov 16 with one change: "Fred Tester" ID replaced with student's regular clicker ID)
-- listed by Device ID #
-- listed from High to Low Score

Class Nine
Audio
Part 1 (Clarence Darrow reading used to review conflicts issues)
Part 2 (role play meeting with Jan DeBoer)
Part 3 (further discussion of Jan DeBoer role play; preparing for Class Ten)

Class Ten
Class 10 Quiz
Quiz Scores
-- listed by Device ID #
-- listed from High to Low Score

Class Eleven
Class 11 Quiz
Quiz Scores
-- listed by Device ID #
-- listed from High to Low Score

Baby Jessica Exercise Two
--- Interview with Suellyn Scarnecchia  (Whether to Go to the Supreme Court) videotape shown in class
------ Transcript* (MS Word document)
Exercise Two videos from prior semesters:
-- Lyn's Meeting with Jan
------ Transcript (MS Word document)
-- Sam's Meeting with Jan
------ Transcript (MS Word document)

Clark D. Cunningham, " 'How Can We Give Up Our Child?' A Practice-Based Approach to Teaching Legal Ethics," 42 The Law Teacher: The International Journal of Legal Education 312 (2008) (explaining use of Baby Jessica case in Professional Responsibility course) (totally optional reading)