Legal Ethics

This course will provide students with a framework within which to analyze the legal dilemmas that lawyers face. Case studies and the Law Society of Ontario's guidelines will be used to focus on lawyer-client confidentiality and expectations, conflicts of interest, client perjury, and how lawyers choose and refuse clients. This course will also examine the paralegal practice in Ontario including the paralegal governance and the ethics and professional practice a paralegal is bound by; duty to the client, confidentiality, and ethical advocacy.

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