Where can you find professional legal ethics rules and interpretations?

I.    ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct:

• ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual On Professional Conduct - Manual

  
  KF 305 .A16 (current through 2003)
  Includes Model Rules, Model Code, and Judicial Code.
  Also available online at http://news.bna.com/moln/
   

• Annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct, ABA, 7th edition, 2011

  
  Reserve KF 306 .A754
  Adopted by the ABA in 1983 with subsequent amendments to serve as a national model of standards govering the practice of law and includes comments and history of the Model Rules, comparisons to the Model Code, and case examples.
   

• ABA Compendium of Professional Responsibilty Rules and Standards

  
  Reserve KF 306.A733
  Includes Model Rules, Model Code and selected formal opinions.

• Available online at:

  BNA
  Lexis
  Westlaw

II.    ABA Formal and Information Opinions:

• ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual On Professional Conduct - Ethics Opinions and Current Reports

  
  KF 305 .A16 (current through 2003)
  Includes ethics opinions on federal and state bar level.

• Available online at:

  ABA: http://www.abanet.org/cpr/pubs/ethicopinions.html The ABA site has minimal primary source material, but provides headnotes of formal opinions.
  BNA: lawyersmanual.bna.com
  Lexis: Bar Opinions
  Westlaw: ABA-BNA
  

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