LEGAL SYSTEM, DEONTOLOGY AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION CourseCode: 2680Degree: Master's in LawFaculty of Social and Legal Sciences of ElcheYear: Year 2 of Master's in LawSemester: FallType: RequiredLanguage: SpanishECTS credits: 7.5Lecture: 7.5Laboratory: 0Hours: 187.5Directed: 0Shared: 0Autonomous: 0Subject matter: Legal Framework of Professional Associations and the Practice of LawModule: Specialized Training ModuleDepartment: Course instructors are responsible for the course content descriptions in English.DescriptionLegal system, deontology, and the legal profession:I. Practicing Law.II. Collegiate and professional organizations.III. Professional ethics.IV. Public defender.V. Free justice.VI. The lawyer as a contributor to the treasury. Main taxes that affect practicing law. Compliance with material and formal tax obligations.FacultyNameCoordinatorLectureLaboratoryORTEGA GIMENEZ, ALFONSO■■■FUENTES SORIANO, OLGA■■Professional interestCompetencies and learning outcomesGeneral competenciesObtain and select relevant information and sources for solving problems, developing action strategies, and advising clients.Develop and manage the most suitable writing, reporting, and operating procedures for problems that arise.Acquire the tools to plan, organize, and channel activities in such a manner to avoid as much as possible that unforeseen, predict and minimize eventual problems, and anticipate their solutions.Consider as a whole and take into account different aspects and implications in the different issues arising from the decisions and options chosen, knowing how to choose or provide those most appropriate within ethics, legality, and values of social coexistence.Ability to work in professional and multi-professional teams efficiently and effectively, producing real contexts and providing and coordinating their own knowledge with other fields and participants.Make individual decisions and actively participate in making collective decisions.Understand and incorporate new technologies into practice.Discern conflicting information and develop a critical judgment about it.Learn to prepare and report cases, problems, or situations, and raise and defend potential solutions using different techniques - oral, written, or in presentation form.Learn techniques for analyzing problems and making professional decisions.Develop the ability to manage, monitor, and resolve any legal issue, both judicial and extrajudicial.Specific competenciesPossess, understand, and develop skills that enable applying the specialized academic expertise acquired in undergraduate education to the changing reality facing lawyers to avoid situations of injury, risk, or conflict in relation to the interests entrusted or in their professional practice in courtrooms or before public authorities and in advisory functions.Learn the techniques for inquiry and establishment of the facts in different types of procedures, especially the production of documents, interviews, and expert evidence.Know and be able to integrate the protections of clients' rights in the context of national and international judicial protection.Learn different reconciliation of interests techniques and know how to find solutions to problems using alternative methods to the judicial process.Know and apply professional ethics rights and duties in the relationships of the lawyer with the client, other parties, the court or the public authority, and among lawyers.Identify and evaluate the varied responsibilities related to professional activity, including the basic functions of free legal assistance and the promotion of the social responsibility of the lawyer.Know how to identify conflicts of interest and learn techniques for resolving them, establish the scope of professional secrecy and confidentiality, and preserve independence of judgment.Know how to identify the requirements for the provision and organization of determinants for legal advice.Understand and know how to apply in practice the organizational, management, and business areas of the legal profession, as well as its associative, fiscal, labor, and protection of personal data legal framework.Develop skills and abilities for choosing the correct strategy for defending the clients' rights, taking the requirements of the different areas of professional practice into account.Develop skills that allow the lawyer to improve work efficiency and enhance the overall operation of the team or institution where it develops through access to information sources, knowledge of languages, managing knowledge, and handling applied tools and techniques.Understand and know how to organize and plan individual and collective resources available for practicing the legal profession in its different organizational forms.Know how to present facts orally and in writing, and arguably draw legal consequences in the context and to whom they are addressed, in accordance where applicable with the terms of each procedural area.Develop professional work in specific and interdisciplinary teams.Learn how to develop interpersonal abilities and skills that facilitate the practice of the legal profession in its relationships with citizens, other professionals, and institutions.Objectives (Learning outcomes)El alumnado será capaz de conocer de forma avanzada los aspectos básicos relacionados con la organización y gestión de la profesión de abogado.ContentsLecture topicsTeaching unitsRégimen Institucional AbogacíaRégimen Institucional ProcuraModalidades ejercicio profesionalGestión DespachosTurno Oficio/Justicia GratuitaTributación despachosRelación económica con el clienteArbitrajeProtección de Datos de Carácter PersonalDeontologíaCostas procesalesResponsabilidad civil abogadoResponsabilidad penal del abogadoResponsabilidad disciplinariaMediación CivilMediación mercantilMediación penalMediación familiarCourse contentsBasic bibliographyMARTÍN CONTRERAS, L. "Las costas procesales. Tasación de costas en todas las órdenes jurisdiccionales, provisión de fondos y jura de cuentas. (Con las últimas novedades procesales)". BOSCH, 2015.MONEDERO PÉREZ, JL. y OROZCO PARDO, G. "Tratado de mediación en resolución de conflictos". TECNOS, 2015.MUNNÉ CATARINA, Frederic y VIDAL TEIXIDÓ, Antoni. "La mediación. Resolución pacífica de conflictos. Régimen jurídico y eficacia procesal". LA LEY, 2013.PARDO IRANZO, V. (Directora). "La mediación: algunas cuestiones de actualidad". Tirant Lo Blanch, 2015.Complementary bibliographyAA.VV. "Proceso, eficacia y garantías en la sociedad global. Liber Amicorum II en honor de María del Carmen Calvo Sánchez.". ATELIER.LinksÁREA DE DERECHO PROCESAL DE LA UMHILUSTRE COLEGIO DE ABOGADOS DE ELCHESoftwareMethodology and gradingGradingAsistencia a clases con un mínimo de un 85% de las sesiones de cada asignatura como requisito para ser evaluadoEvaluación de los cuestionarios resueltos en el aula (ENTRE 30%-50%)Evaluación de los casos prácticos (dictámenes, actividades de simulación, etc.) resueltos y/ o expuestos en el aula individualmente o en grupo (ENTRE 50%- 70%)