Introduction and Week 1:

1. What are the sources of professional responsibility and ethics regulation for attorneys? What obligations are prescribed? What other kind of guideposts should a lawyer reflect upon, according to the Preamble to the MRPC?

2. What are the sources of professional responsibility and ethics regulation for judges? 

3. What are the two broad categories of duties that professional responsibility rules embody?

4. What is one area of professional responsibility with a high level of bar activity this year? 

5. What are some of the shared normative commitments held by members of the legal profession in the United States? 

6. What are the three roles that a lawyer fulfills according to the Preamble to the MRPC? 

7. What are the three personal qualities that every lawyer should evidence according to the Preamble? What other two core obligations does the Preamble list? 

8. As a public citizen, according to the Preamble, what are some of the goals that a lawyer's behavior should embody? 

9. How is the legal profession governed, according to the Preamble? 

10. According to the Preamble, when do most duties flowing from the MRPC attach? Are there exceptions? 

11. According to the Preamble, how should the the disciplinary process of an alleged violation of a Rule proceed? 

12. According to the Preamble, does a violation of a Rule give rise to a cause of action against an attorney? 

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