Thursday, September 22, 2005

September 22, 2005

PL 100
In class today, we started by going over the letters that students had written to clarify whether representation had commenced. I handed out the Maine Rules of Evidence regarding lawyer-client privilege, and we discussed the concepts of privilege and confidentiality, We compared the Maine rules regarding privilege and confidentiality with the ABA rules discussed in the textbook. For next class on Tuesday, September 27, we will continue to discuss privilege and confidentiality. The additional assignment for Tuesday is to read pp. 78-81 in the text, and to locate and read the corresponding Maine CPR rules regarding conflicts.

PL 205
In class today we went over the statutory papers. We went over some of the concepts in chapter 4 of the text. On next Tuesday we will go over the chapter 4 concept of how to do a case brief . The additional reading assignment is pp. 155-167 in the textbook.