Who is the governing authority for licensing and monitoring attorneys in your area?
Discussion: Common Ethical Issues

Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation in which you discuss ethics in the court system.

Include answers to the following in your presentation:

Who is the governing authority for licensing and monitoring attorneys in your area?
What are some of the common ethical issues or pitfalls related to court procedures?
What are common sanctions for violating ethical practices for attorneys or judges?
Should defense attorneys be given greater latitude than prosecutors in ethical expectations?
Examples of ethical violations for which an attorney could be disbarred?
Whose role is more critical to the courts?
Whose role has a higher level of ethical expectations?
What was one of the points made during your collaborative group discussion this week?
Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

Include speaker notes.

Include a minimum of 2 resources.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.