This web site is a final project created for a course entitled Practical Moral Philosophy for Lawyers, taught by Professor James Elkins at the West Virginia UniversityCollege of Law.  It's goal to to examine some areas where lawyers wrestle with morality in their practice, and to show the sort of deliberation that hopefully goes on when confronted with similar situations.  These situations are presented through a series of fictional scenes which place a lawyer in a difficult moral position.  Each lawyer must make a decision.  Each scene is followed by two links, one which argues that the attorney made the correct decision, while the other takes the alternate view. 

A quick note on the law in each scene.  These are all entirely fictional, and therefore are not located in any specific jurisdiction.  Therefore, the law as stated in the scenes may not be a majority view or even a minority view.  It has been crafted to shape the moral dilemmas, which is the main concern here.  Any specific ethical rules referred to are accurate, however. 

If you have comments or questions after reading any part of this site, feel free to click on the Email link at the bottom or each page and share your thoughts.  If I receive enough thoughtful and insightful feedback, I will put some of it on the site.  Flames and hate mail will be ignored.