CHAPTER 12 THE ETHICS YOU SEE AREN'T THE ETHICS YOU DO: IMAGES OF LAWYERS IN THE MOVIES - HOW HOLLYWOOD AFFECTS THE ETHICAL AND PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR OF LAWYERS

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CHAPTER 12
THE ETHICS YOU SEE AREN'T THE ETHICS YOU DO: IMAGES OF LAWYERS IN THE MOVIES - HOW HOLLYWOOD AFFECTS THE ETHICAL AND PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR OF LAWYERS
Nancy B. Rapoport
University of Houston Law Center
Houston, Texas
NANCY B. RAPOPORT

Nancy B. Rapoport is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. After receiving her B.A., summa cum laude, from Rice University and her J.D. from Stanford Law School, she clerked for the Honorable Joseph T. Sneed on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then practiced law (primarily bankruptcy law) with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco.

She started her academic career at The Ohio State University College of Law in 1991, and she moved from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor to Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professor in 1998 (just as she left Ohio State to become Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law). She served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1998-2000. She has been the Dean at the University of Houston Law Center since 2000. Her specialties are bankruptcy ethics and law and popular culture. She has taught Contracts, Sales (Article 2), Bankruptcy, Chapter 11 Reorganization, Legal Writing, Contract Drafting, and Professional Responsibility.

Among her published works is %sEnron: Corporate Fiascos and Their Implications%s (Foundation Press 2004) (co-edited with Professor Bala G. Dharan of Rice University).

She is admitted to the bars of the states of California, Ohio, Nebraska, and Texas and to the United States Supreme Court. In 2001, she was elected to membership in the American Law Institute, and in 2002, she received a Distinguished Alumna Award from Rice University. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. In 2004, she was invited for induction as a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, and she will become a Fellow in 2005.

Dressed for Excess--Images of Lawyers on the Silver Screen

Nancy B. Rapoport
Dean and Professor of Law
University of Houston Law Center

Two themes of today's presentation.

□ It matters what clients "know" about lawyers.

□ We don't know what we (lawyers) "know," and how that "knowledge" might affect us.

A bit of context.

□ Robber barons and moral independence theory.

□ New theory: moral interdependence.

□ Shameless plug for new textbook--Nancy...