Professional Responsibility (Hickok)
Faculty
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| Alicia Hickok Lecturer in Law alicia.hickok@faegredrinker.com |
Additional Information
Skills Training
Oral Presentations
Team Projects
Grading
10% Participation,
90% Other (Paper 1 15 percent
Presentation 1 15 percent
Paper 2 30 percent
Presentation 2 30 percent
Class Participation and Preparedness. 10 percent
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No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- Class sessions are regularly recorded. I will make these recordings routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
- I will make PowerPoint slides or other class materials routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
Meeting Times/Location
W 6:40PM - 8:30PM
Silverman Hall 240B
Category
Upper-Level
Credits
2.0
Professional Responsibility is the only class in law school that is all about you. You are the one responsible for your professional life and choices. This course will explore what that means--not just as a lawyer in a given jurisdiction, but as a lawyer interacting with the policy-setting of multiple jurisdictions. Grades will be based on two papers and two small-group presentations. There will be assigned readings for each week, but there will be no textbook; many of the readings will be based on recent cases or "in the news" ways that people are living out (or not) the principles in the principles of professional conduct in different jurisdictions.
Professional Responsibility and Ethics Learning outcomes: Demonstrate an understanding of how the law affects, and is affected by, the individual course topic; Perform legal analysis in the context of the individual course topic; Communicate effectively on the legal and other aspects of the individual course topic; Demonstrate the ability to use other disciplines to analyze legal issues relevant to the individual course topic, including economics, philosophy, and sociology, as appropriate.
Textbooks
"Annotated model rules of Professional Conduct" by Ellen J Bennett |