Providing a strong and traditional emphasis on case analysis and legal theory, this new edition gives students an opportunity to master the substantive material by applying it in skills-based ?Lawyering Exercises.? It also provides professors with the opportunity to incorporate the teaching of fundamental lawyering skills and values, and structures its presentation of doctrine in a manner that is quite comfortable to those who have taught from other popular casebooks. In addition, this casebook features coverage of issues of current importance and/or recent public interest.