February 11, 2010

PL 305--Legal Ethics
In class tonight, Thursday 2/11, I distributed 6 handouts: Ethical Opinions # 8, 156, and 195 from the Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar; Rule 3.3 of the Maine Rules of Professional Conduct; my brief of the HPD Laboratories case that was assigned for tonight; and a copy of the case for next week, Corey v. Norman, Hanson & Detroy,
1999 ME 196, 742 A.2d 933.. The Ethical Opinions and Rule 3.3 are available from the site www.mebaroverseers.org. The Corey case is available from the Maine Supreme Court site www.courts.state.me.us/court_info/opinions/supreme/index.shtml
as well as from westlaw.
We went over the concepts of Chapter 4 of the text, and then went over the brief of the HPD case.
The assignment for next week, Thursday 2/18, is to read the handouts, and to do a case brief of the Corey case, This brief is to be handed in, and will be graded. Brief the entire case, both the proximate cause issue and the inadvertent release of privileged information issue. Follow the format of the sample brief template that was distributed last week.