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NOTE: Course offerings change. Classes offered this semester may not be offered in future semesters.283.2 sec. 1 - Providing Pro Bono Legal Services: Professional Responsibility and Entrepreneurial Leadership (Fall 2011)
Instructor: David Oppenheimer (view instructor's teaching evaluations | profile)
Instructor: Susan Schechter (view instructor's teaching evaluations | profile)
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Units: 2
Meeting Time: Th 3:35-5:25
Meeting Location: 240
Course Start: August 25, 2011
Course Control Number (Non-1Ls): 49904
Providing Pro Bono Legal Services: Professional Responsibility and Entrepreneurial Leadership.
This course is provided to the 2L and 3L student leaders of the Berkeley Law Student Initiated Legal Services Projects (SLIPS). The course will (1) examine the professional responsibilities of the legal profession, with a focus on the responsibilities of lawyers providing legal services to indigent clients; (2) apply the law of professional responsibility to the challenges of leading SLIPS projects; (3) explore the entrepreneurial leadership skills required for successful leadership of SLIPS projects; and (4) meet with leaders of legal services projects to analyze the sources of their successful leadership.
Limited enrollment: Enrollment is limited to the 2L and 3L student leaders of the Berkeley Law Student Initiated Legal Services Projects (SLIPS).
This course satisfies the Professional Responsibility Requirement.
Exam Notes: P+
Course Category: Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
This course is cross-listed in the following categories:
Social Justice and Public Interest
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Readers:
A reader will be used in this class.
Books:
Required Books are in blue
- Legal ethics in a nutshell
by Ronald D. Rotunda
Publisher: St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, c2007.
ISBN: 9780314180407
Copyright Date: To Be Determined
Price: $11.95
Note: prices are sampled from internet bookstores. Folletts prices are unavailable at this time.
