ETHICSearch
American Bar Association
Center for Professional Responsibility
(800) 285 2221 and press 8
ETHICSearch@americanbar.org

A lawyer has been holding funds for clients he cannot locate in his client trust account. What are the lawyer's obligations to his missing clients? What should he do with the unclaimed funds?

A lawyer spends six hours on a cross country plane trip on behalf of client A. While on the plane, he spends four hours working on a matter for client B. Can he bill six hours to client A and four hours to client B?

Where do you go when you have an ethics question?

ETHICSearch

ETHICSearch is an easy, fast and economical way to locate resources that provide answers to these and thousands of other ethical questions. Operated through the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, ETHICSearch fields approximately 2,500 e-mail phone and letter inquiries per year, directing callers to the applicable ABA ethics rules, ethics opinions issued by the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, state and local bar association ethics opinions, and other relevant ethics research materials such as case law, law review articles and treatises.

There is no charge for this service, although priority is given to ABA members.

For further information, call ETHICSearch at (800) 285-2221and press 8 or drop us an e-mail at ETHICSearch@americanbar.org. You can also send a fax to (312) 988-5491. Our mailing address is ETHICSearch, American Bar Association, Center for Professional Responsibility, 17 th Floor, 321 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60611.

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