Hot Topics in the Legal Profession - 2017

Current important events in the legal profession and legal ethics, with useful research and analysis of the rules and the profession's current challenges, are analyzed by Tulane law students from an Advanced Legal Profession Seminar. The contents include: 


Foreword: Ethics and the Legal Profession in a Decade of Continuing Change and Challenge, by Steven Alan Childress 


PART I.  APPLICATION OF RULES TO NEW SETTINGS AND IN NEW WAYS


1   Duty of Loyalty or Limited Liability: How Close is Too Close for Lawyer Disqualification?, by Joshua Sanchez-Secor

 

2   Prosecutorial Misconduct and Wrongful Convictions: A Plague Upon Our Criminal Justice System?, by Jessica Dennis 


3   Attorney Sexual Misconduct: The ABA Update of Model Rule 8.4, the Addition to Model Rule 1.8, and the Consequences of Discrimination on Women in the Legal Profession, by Sarah Cullum

  

4   Rule 4.2: Communication Without Representation, by Corey Friedman 


PART II.  INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES 


5   Law Placement of International Students in U.S. Law Firms, by Qinyu Fan 


6   Development of the Legal Profession in China, by Shu Chen 


PART III. THE LEGAL PROFESSION'S CHALLENGES AND FUTURE 


7   The Cost of Getting Ahead: An Examination of Adderall Abuse, Effects, and Solutions Among Law Schools, by Marissa Delgado 


8   The Binary Barrister: A Review of Increased Automation in Legal Practice, by Vincent Yadgood