Professional Responsibility (Aspen Roadmap Law Course Outlines) [Paperback]

James E. Moliterno (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1567065368 | ISBN-13: 978-1567065367 | Publication Date: January 1999

The most trusted name in law school outlines, Emanuel Law Outlines support your class preparation, provide reference for your outline creation, and supply a comprehensive breakdown of topic matter for your entire study process. Created by Steven Emanuel, these course outlines have been relied on by generations of law students. Each title includes both capsule and detailed versions of the critical issues and key topics you must know to master the course. Also included are exam questions with model answers, an alpha-list of cases, and a cross reference table of cases for all of the leading casebooks.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 382 pages
• Publisher: Aspen Publishers (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567065368
• ISBN-13: 978-1567065367
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,865,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too barebones for the MPRE, December 28, 2007

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Timothy Jordan (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CrunchTime: Professional Responsibility (Paperback)

This supplement is about as barebones as you can get. There are no glaring omissions from the material covered, but this supplement simply does not convey as much depth as is necessary for a PR class or the MPRE. I took a PR class, then waited one year before taking the MPRE, and intended on using this book as my primary refresher. It became readily apparent that my plan would need a revision once I started comparing MPRE practice exams to this supplement. The MPRE tests for nuances in the rules--nuances that this book just does not acknowledge, nevermind discuss.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars MPRE study guide, December 23, 2007

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Christopher Pogue "Pogue" (Cincinnati, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Emanuel Law Outlines: Professional Responsibility (Paperback)

The outlines themselves are helpful, but there is only one practice exam at the end, which does not provide explanations for right and wrong answers.

For those looking to for more exam questions with explanations I would go for another book. I borrowed a friends BARBRI book on professional responsibility and found it much more helpful. There were four practice exams, all with explanations. The downside to the BARBRI books are that you need to sign up for all their bar revue texts in order to get this one, but if you are planning to take the bar exam it is not such a big deal; you will want the other books anyway.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If there were a Model Rules of Writing, they would fail MR 1.1 for being incompetent, December 4, 2008

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M. Schwalbert (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Emanuel Law Outlines: Professional Responsibility (Print + eBook CD Bundle) (AspenLaw Studydesk) (Paperback)

Typos abound...probably one on each page. However, they don't get a 1 star just for that. The deal breaker is they ACTUALLY MATERIALLY MISSTATE THE MODEL RULES.

There are sections in this book that tell you the opposite of what the Model Rules actually say. I found two such errors regarding conflicts of interest from third party control of a lawyer's independent judgment. Typos are one thing, but there is no excuse for these types of serious errors.

Furthermore, the book is about twice as big as it needs to be. Half the time, they bold a statement as a "heading" and then just repeat nearly the same thing under the "heading" without any real elaboration. The do this in the capsule summary and the main portion. They also parrot back the capsule summary in the main portion without much elaboration.

About the only redeeming quality is the examples that follow many of their statements of the law. However, if you want something like that, you can probably find other options that give you hypos and examples without the rest of the headache. Try an E&E...but BEWARE, they are created by the same company, so that too may be a waste of money.

Regardless, don't come back to Emanuel until a second edition gets positive reviews.