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  2. American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct

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    Although the MRPC generally is not binding law in and of itself, it is intended to be a model for state regulators of the legal profession (such as bar associations) to adopt, while leaving room for state-specific adaptations. [1] All fifty states and the District of Columbia have adopted legal ethics rules based at least in part on the MRPC ...

  3. Lisa Webley - Wikipedia

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    Lisa Webley is a legal scholar, academic, and author who is serving as the Chair of Legal Education and Research at the University of Birmingham [1] and Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) in University of London. [2]

  4. Legal ethics - Wikipedia

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    Of the 56 jurisdictions within the United States, only Puerto Rico, and Wisconsin do not use the MPRE; however, these jurisdictions still incorporate local ethics rules in their respective bar examinations. [2] Maynard Pirsig, published one of the first course books on legal ethics, Cases and Materials on Legal Ethics, 1949.

  5. Ethical code - Wikipedia

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    A code of practice is adopted by a profession (or by a governmental or non-governmental organization) to regulate that profession. A code of practice may be styled as a code of professional responsibility, which will discuss difficult issues and difficult decisions that will often need to be made, and then provide a clear account of what behavior is considered "ethical" or "correct" or "right ...

  6. Case method - Wikipedia

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    The case method evolved from the casebook method, a mode of teaching based on Socratic principles pioneered at Harvard Law School by Christopher C. Langdell.Like the casebook method the case method calls upon students to take on the role of an actual person faced with a difficult problem.

  7. Category:Legal ethics - Wikipedia

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  8. Ethical implications in contracts - Wikipedia

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    In addition, certain contracts are required by state law to be in writing (real estate transactions, for example), while others are not. [2] Wade and Honeyman [3] describe a ‘durable’ contract as one in which all parties substantially perform without abandonment and without resorting to legal proceedings. With only anecdotal evidence, it is ...

  9. Natural law - Wikipedia

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    Natural law [1] (Latin: ius naturale, lex naturalis) is a philosophical and legal theory that posits the existence of a set of inherent laws derived from nature and universal moral principles, which are discoverable through reason.