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Professional responsibility Class #1

Professional responsibility Class #1. Renee Newman Knake @ reneeknake www.reneeknake.com Associate Professor of Law, Michigan State University. “This is your life. This is your time.” Snow Patrol, Called Out in the Dark. Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility # knakepr.

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Professional responsibility Class #1

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  1. Professional responsibilityClass #1 Renee Newman Knake @reneeknake www.reneeknake.com Associate Professor of Law, Michigan State University

  2. “This is your life. This is your time.” Snow Patrol, Called Out in the Dark Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility #knakepr

  3. MY BACKGROUND JD, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LITIGATOR AT MAYER, BROWN AND HUNTON & WILLIAMS ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA PROFESSOR @ MSU LAW SINCE 2006 FOUNDED REINVENT LAW 2012 WITH PROF. DAN KATZ MY SCHOLARSHIP FOCUSES ON LAWYER ETHICS AND INNOVATION IN THE DELIVERY OF LEGAL SERVICES, AMONG OTHER THINGS…

  4. Opening Text Today’s Agenda Overview of the Course Sources of Lawyering Law My Professional Responsibility The Start-Up of You Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility #knakepr

  5. The Big Themes of this Course An Overview of the Law of Lawyering Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility #knakepr

  6. Our Tools

  7. Required Materials Opening Text Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility #knakepr

  8. When a Model Rule is discussed by the casebook, it is your responsibility to read the ENTIRE RULE and THE COMMENTS. Here is where you can find the information on-line if you choose not to purchase a copy of the Model Rules…

  9. http://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/publications/model_rules_of_professional_conduct/model_rules_of_professional_conduct_table_of_contents.html (or just Google “ABA Model Rules Professional Conduct”)

  10. Why a live Tweet Wall in class? Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility

  11. Why a live Tweet Wall in class? Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility #knakepr

  12. Opening Text Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility

  13. Four reasons for Tweeting in PR: This is an example of the technology that you are now required under the Model Rules to understand. Your professional identity starts now. Different kind of class engagement and participation recognizing our various learning styles. Client development. Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility #knakepr

  14. My Professional Responsibility to all of you… Understand. I will provide a comprehensive explanation of the law governing lawyers, including the Model Rules. Apply. You will develop a process for handling ethical dilemmas that arise in your law practice. Build. We will a foundation for your rewarding and meaningful career in the law. Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility

  15. Today’s Reading #knakepr Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility

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  20. Opening Text Let’s talk about the Start-Up of You. Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility

  21. All human beings are entrepreneurs. --Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner

  22. CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING—HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN THE PLANET HANDLE? VIEW THE VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HISc-FYKbo8 TAKE A MOMENT TO CONSIDER THE BIG PICTURE…

  23. The escalator is jammed.

  24. Why the start-up of you? “The business strategies employed by highly successful start-ups and the career strategies employed by highly successful individualsare strikingly similar.” “Entrepreneurship is a life idea…a globalidea.”

  25. Think about the story of Detroit.

  26. WILL YOU BE THE KODAK OR INSTRAGRAM OF LEGAL SERVICES?

  27. I empathize/help + fun + relational alliances + 2nd-3rd degree connections + bridge + in touch + interesting people fund + letting go WE

  28. Opening Text Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility #knakepr

  29. Opening Text #knakepr Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility

  30. “One lifetime is but a second in the history of the earth. What are you doing with your second?” --Sven Eberlein #knakepr Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility

  31. Opening Text Next time: Casebook 1-56 Intro & The Basic Elements of Law Practice #knakepr Professor Renee Knake, Professional Responsibility

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