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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.
- 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