Ethics and Writing

Ethics and Writing

Research your state’s ethical rules for attorneys on competence and candor. Then using the ethical rules you find, the weekly reading assignments, the interviews of the Supreme Court Justices and your discussion post on prewriting skills, write a two-page paper that discusses and explains how the ethical rules and prewriting process impacts the goal that legal writing be clear, readable, and understandable.

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            Each state has its ethical rules for attorneys on both competence and candor. These ethical rules, and prewriting process have different impacts on the goal that legal writing ought to be clear, readable and understandable. The Supreme Court of Florida has put in place a Code of Professionalism. The code is composed of various standards of behavior codified in multiple sections.

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