Week 3 – February 6, 2017
The Ethics of Client Representation
Syllabus: The Role of the State Attorney General
The constitutional and statutory duties of attorneys general can be at variance with the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility. This week focuses on core ethical readings as well as concrete ethical dilemmas that are faced by almost every attorney general.
- Justin G. Davids, State Attorneys General and Client-Attorney Relationship: Establishing the Power to Sue State Officiers, 38 Colum. J.L. & Soc. Probs. 365 (2005)
- Jack B. Weinstein, Some Ethical and Political Problems of a Government Attorney, 18 Me. L. Rev. 155 (1966)
- Newspaper stories describing positions of then Alabama Attorney General William Pryor and Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, (2003 - 2016)
- Dumcius, Gintautas, “Judge rips into Attorney General Maura Healey's office, asking, 'Who speaks for the children,' over alleged Bridgewater State University rape case,” MassLive.com, February 1, 2016
- Dumcius, Gintautas,”Attorney General Maura Healey: Office will work with families of Bridgewater State University child rape case” (Video), MassLive.com, February 2, 2016
- Watts, A., & Martinez M. (February 5, 2015) Judge rejects Arizona's effort to dismiss prison teacher rape lawsuit, CNN
- Freeport v. FERC, 962 F.2d 45 (D.C. Cir. 1992)
- Richard W. Painter, Letter to ABA President on State Attorneys General and MR 3.8, December 27, 2014
- Columbia Law School, Ethics Resources
- Ethics Hypotheticals