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Course Description  \nII. Competencies & Learning Outcomes  \nIII. Required Text  \nIV. Grading  \nV. Module Design  \nVI. Law School Policies  \nVII. Calendar of Deliverables  \nI . Course Description  \nThis required 3-credit course covers the ethical responsibilities of lawyers as they engage in the practice of law. Discussion focuses on situations arising in practice that present important problems of professional conduct, especially duties of confidentiality, loyalty, competence, and communication. distinctive characteristics of the legal profession. Most of the course focuses on whether and how the bar imposes discipline on licensees. Smaller parts of the course focus on when lawyer conduct creates malpractice liability and on the conduct of judges.  \nII . Course Competencies & Learning Outcomes  \nAt the end of this course, you should be able to:  \n1. Take and pass the MPRE, required for licensure in almost all U.S. jurisdictions. 1  \n2. Articulate the Model Rules ofProfessional Conduct.  \n3. Articulate the Model Code ofJudicial Conduct.  \n4. Assess the conduct of a lawyer in various situations, identifying which rules offer guidance, and determining whether the conduct risks bar discipline.  \n5. Assess the conduct of a lawyer in various situations and determine whether the conduct risks malpractice liability.  \n6. Assess the conduct of a lawyer in various situations and determine whether the conduct risks sanctions from a court or a governmental agency.  \n7. More specific competencies and learning outcomes are included within each of the fifteen modules.  \nIII. Required Materials  \nA. Required Course Materials  \nThere is no required text. Instead, a PDF reading packet is posted under each week’s module. These are comprised primarily of excerpts from the Model Rules ofProfessional Conduct and the Model Code ofJudicial Conduct.  \nWe will read portions of the MRPC in the reading packet in each course module. We will read the MCJC in the final course module. By the end of the course, you will have read the complete MRPC and the complete MCJC. But read the MRPC (and perhaps also the MCJC) multiple times before the MPRE. Read not only the rules but also all the comments to the rules. Many MPRE questions are based on the comments.  \n1 While this course is designed to prepare you to take the MPRE, you should still take one of the many free review courses offered by bar exam review companies like Bar-Bri.  \nIn addition to the MRPC and the MCJC, the required reading packets for some weekly modules also include other materials like rules of Evidence (e.g., attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine), a little substantive Criminal law, Contract law, Tort law (e.g., legal malpractice), Agency law, and key court cases. We include these other materials because they are tested on the MPRE.  \nB. Optional Study Guide Materials  \nThe following materials are optional study guide resources. They may be useful for solidifying your understanding of Professional Responsibility. These resources should be useful not only for the Spring 2026 course taught by Professor Pope but also for the MPRE exam in August 2026 (or whenever you take it) .  \nSince Professional Responsibility is a required course in 200+ U.S. law schools, many legal publishers have published a variety of hornbooks and other study guides directed to law students. I offer these with two caveats. First, I have not had the opportunity to review all these materials. Second, many hornbooks and study guides on Professional Responsibility go far wider than what we are doing in this class. These books address the role of lawyers in society and question the ethics of the rules themselves. 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