In a professional responsibility course, students learn the basics about their ethical duties as lawyers. Most students take the course in their third year and, by this point, the students will have learned how to read appellate opinions and apply them and will be able to distinguish cases and make analogies. Unlike new law students, third-year students have little to gain from extended Socratic dialogue about reported cases. Indeed, because third-year students have mastered the basic skills of legal analysis, they often find such dialogue tiresome. Therefore, the teacher must find another way to engage these students.