This course surveys the ethical and regulatory requirements by which lawyers are bound from the perspective of how those requirements may be experienced in practice, and why they are often much harder to appreciate and follow in the real world than they may seem in the classroom. Topics will include the ethics and mechanics of creating and terminating the attorney-client relationship; the financial and fiduciary features of the attorney-client relationship (fees, trust funds, loyalty to the client's directions and interests, confidentiality); conflicts of interest; representing entities; ethics in advocacy; and ethics in a business practice. These topics will be addressed in the context in which they typically arise in practice, with a focus on anticipating and avoiding problems before they arise and a practical approach to solving them when they do.