Legal Ethics in a Nutshell

by Ronald D. Rotunda

Book Overview

Many law professors aim to probe deep ethical issues in class. But they need to cover the material that the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination requires. The Rotunda Nutshell fulfils... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0314143556
• ISBN13: 9780314143556
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: West Group Publishing
• Length: 451 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Concise and Correct Review (Mostly)

As a former disciplinary counsel in NY, I found this book to be right on in many respects, and glossing over in others. For the most part, a good beginning for the practitioner in sorting out the hoary and complicated issues that crop in various ethical situations.

best approach to confusing topic

I've looked at a few PR study guides, but they all are organized rather amorphously, so, for instance, my CB goes topically. I find it easier to organize my thoughts and outline when arranged by rule--which is what this book does. It takes the Model Rules and addresses each, and the larger topic it addresses, separately. It selectively incorporates the Restatements and Model Code, telling you when one varies from another. It is by far the clearest synopsis of "soft" rules that I have found--far better, in fact, than the same author's "Professional Responsibility" for the "Black Letter Series," which approaches by topic.