LEGAL ETHICS

Primary Source Documents

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct

ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (2002 ed.) from the American Bar Association. Full-text of the rules.

Code of Judicial Conduct

Code of Conduct for United States Judges from the ABA.

Massachusetts Bar Association Ethics Opinions

Published opinions of the MBA Committee on Professional Ethics dating back to 1973. Search by keyword or browse the collection. Membership needed.

Massachusetts: Lawyer Discipline

Office of Bar Counsel/Board of Bar Overseers web site includes Rules of Professional Conduct; SJC Rule 4:01-Bar Discipline; Rules of the Board of Bar Overseers; recent orders of the Supreme Judicial Court; procedures for filing a complaint.

ABA Ethics Opinions

ABA Center for Professional responsibility provides headnote summaries of recent ABA Ethics Opinions.

State and Local Rules and Ethics Opinions

Annotated links to ethics and professional conduct codes for the States.

Legal Ethics Journals

Ethics

International journal of social political and legal philosophy, published by the University of Chicago Press. Available table of contents from 1996.

Environmental Ethics

Interdisciplinary journal focussing on the philosophical aspects of environmental problems. Provides cumulative index from 1979.

Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics

Search for citations to articles by author and title.

Journal of the Legal Profession

The nation's first periodical on legal ethics.

Ohio Review of Law and Ethics

Links to full-text of the most recent issue.

Legal Ethics Blog

Legal Ethics Forum
Includes postings by law school professors. This blog discusses recent court decisions and news stories related to legal ethics issues and includes references to relevant articles and publications. The blog is continuously updated.

Associations

American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility

Information about publications, current projects and upcoming events. Very useful for annotated links to other legal ethics and professional responsibility pages.

American Inns of Court

National organization of more than 20,000 lawyers and judges engaged in promoting professionalism and civility in the practice of law.

American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Organization dedicated to providing scholarship, debate and critical thought for professionals involved in law, health care, policy and ethics.

Directory of State Disciplinary Boards and Bar Associations.

University of South Carolina School of Law Center on Professionalism
Established in 1999 to develop courses in the area of legal ethics and professionalism. Sponsors conferences, symposia and scholarship about professionalism. Provides a calendar of national and international events related to professionalism.

Major Collections of Legal Ethics Information

Cornell LII American Legal Ethics Library

Provides links to ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, state ethics opinions and annotated model rules and codes.

Findlaw: Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law

Findlaw's links to ethics and professional responsibility law documents, articles, discussion groups, Supreme Court decisions, CLE programs and legal associations.

LegalEthics.com

Links to state ethics opinions and rules governing lawyer advertising, confidentiality and government ethics.

LLRX: Research Wire

Law Journal Extra article on annotated sites for legal ethics research web sites.

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Ellen Delaney, Reference Librarian
Last updated: January 6, 2011.