Videotape Products and Services
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Updated 12/20/04
The Professional Responsibility Video Library was established in 1988 to provide educational video programming to meet the challenges of emerging developments in legal ethics, professional regulation and professionalism. All tapes are available for purchase only.
Each of the first five videotapes features four dramatic vignettes illustrating ethical dilemmas confronting lawyers. Lively and informative discussions among three distinguished practitioners follow each vignette. Though the vignettes are set within various fields of practice, the dilemmas and discussions are applicable to a wide range of practice areas. Discussion guides accompany each tape. Videotapes can be ordered by contacting CPR at cpr@abanet.org or by calling 312/988-5325.
Attorney-Client Relations
An examination of professional conduct in relation to the question "Who's in charge, client or lawyer?" Scenarios include potential client perjury and influencing the client's testimony in a criminal context; client competence and responsibility for decision making in regard to trial tactics; boundaries of zealous advocacy and a lawyer's duty to advise viewed in a domestic relations matter; and limitations upon the preparation of a client for trial. Includes excerpts from two major motion pictures.
Purchase:
PC:462-0004 - 1989, 57 minutes ($125.00) ($95.00 - CPR member)
Comes with discussion guide (2004).
Client Confidentiality
A look at the conflict between maintaining client confidences and fulfilling the duty to disclose, including issues pitting legal ethics against moral values. Scenarios include candor toward the tribunal and truthfulness in statements to others when confronted with a client who may be lying; the lawyer's duty to advise and the protection of third parties set in a child custody case; revealing confidential information to save the life of an innocent person; and reporting misconduct of a lawyer against a client's wishes.
Purchase:
PC:462-0008 - 1989, 59 minutes ($125.00)
($95.00 - CPR member)
Comes with discussion guide (2004).
Conflicts of Interest
An inspection of the various ways in which conflicts can arise. Scenarios include multiple representation and imputed disqualification in the context of a real estate transaction; conflicting duties to a former client and an unrepresented person in a domestic relations setting; business transactions with a client conflicting with a lawyer's personal interests in the acquisition of literary rights of a criminal defendant's story; and adverse interests of clients within the framework of insurance defense.
Purchase:
PC:462-0006 - 1989, 57 minutes ($125.00)
($95.00 - CPR member)
Comes with discussion guide (2004).
Associate/Partner Relations
An investigation into intra-office communications, problem solving and decision-making. Scenarios include conflicting ideas about billable hour requirements relating to quality of life issues; the impact of flexible hours on clients and others in the firm; associate reporting of perceived partner misconduct; and discriminatory procedures in making case assignments.
Purchase:
PC:462-0010 - 1989, 57 minutes ($125.00)
($95.00 - CPR member)
Comes with discussion guide (2004).
Independence of Counsel
An inquiry into the moral and ethical obligations of corporate counsel. A series of vignettes depicts the events surrounding the manufacture of a defective product. Addressed are the duties to respond to employee requests, to render advice, to keep information confidential within the organization, and to question organizational decisions, as well as the duties owed by subordinate lawyers to the corporation, its customers and the public.
Purchase:
PC:462-0012 - 1989, 34 minutes ($100.00)
($75.00 - CPR member)
Comes with discussion guide (2004).
Videotape Package
Above five videotapes are available as a package:
Purchase:
PC:462-0014 ($450.00) ($375.00 - CPR member)
Comes with discussion guide (2004) for all five tapes.
Vignettes Only Tape
All the vignettes from the five videos described above appear with no discussion. This tape is intended for use by law schools, bar associations and other groups that will further explore the issues portrayed through live panel or audience discussion.
Purchase:
PC:462-0002 - 1989, 70 minutes ($300.00)
($225.00 - CPR member)
Comes with discussion guide (2004) for all five tapes.
Preview Tape
This tape contains scenes and discussions from each of the five tapes described above.
Purchase:
PC:462-0016 - 1989, 20 minutes (approx.) ($10.00)
Lawyers, Alcoholism and the Intervention Process
Interventions interrupt the progression of alcohol and substance abuse by confronting the reality of the user's problem and initiating helpful change. Interventions educate the user's friends and relatives about how they have enabled the abuse to continue and how they can help the user into recovery. The tape dramatizes the steps of an intervention with a fictional alcohol-dependent judge, describing the requirements, methods and goals of the intervention process and the emotionally charged atmosphere that it creates.
Purchase:
PC: 462-0022 - 1991, 40 minutes ($100.00)
($75.00 - CPR member)
No written materials.
The S.O.B. Litigator Vignettes
The vignettes dramatize questionable behavior by litigators in situations ranging from discovery to settlement conference to trial. Issues that arise include the obligation to correct unintentional misrepresentations made in negotiations for settlement; the fine line between the boundaries of zealous advocacy and harassment of opponents and obstruction of justice; the response to an opponent's inappropriate and abusive behavior; the court's role in establishing proper conduct during discovery and trial; and how to avoid playing the "S.O.B." litigator's game.
Purchase:
PC:462-0017 - 1989, 28 minutes ($100.00)
($75.00 - CPR member)
No written materials.
The Judicial Response to Misconduct
This videotape was produced to assist the judiciary with the identification of lawyer and judicial misconduct and the appropriate responses to them. The tape consists of 12 vignettes covering issues confronting judges regularly and comes with a discussion guide. A corresponding text and discussion guide can also be purchased.
Purchase:
PC:561-0126P - 1993, 57 minutes ($45.00) ($35.00 - CPR member)
Professional Responsibility and the Solo or Small Firm Practitioner
Vignettes cover areas of special concern to solo and small firm practitioners such as confidentiality within shared office space, business transactions with clients, conflicts with personal interests, competence and professionalism.
PC:462-0024 - 1993 ($75.00) ($55.00 - CPR
member)
No written materials.
Perspectives on Client Communications
A dramatic presentation about the proper and improper ways in which lawyers communicate with clients about cases, opposing counsel, and the system of justice.
PC:462-0025 - 1993 ($25.00) ($20.00 - CPR
member)
No written materials.
