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Description:Professional Responsibility for the Business Lawyer: This course is a survey of rules of professional responsibility for lawyers with an emphasis on the rules that apply to lawyers in corporate and transactionsal practice. Issues covered include client conflicts, representing close corporations and partnerships, representing venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in start ups, taking stock in lieu of legal fees, representing public companies, Securities Exchange Commission rules of professional responsibility for lawyers under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, representing banks and other regulated companies, the role of in-house counsel, the responsibility of lawyers for client conduct and malpractice liability for business lawyers. |
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Fall 2012: Professional Responsibility - Business
show details- Professor Richard W. Painter (URL rpainter@umn.edu)
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Details:For the first day students in the Professional Responsibility Business course should read pages 1-19 of the casebook. |
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