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Nationwide
- The ABA has a Web site that offers information regarding Hiring a Lawyer, Lawyer Referral Services, Pro Bono and Legal Aid Programs, Self Help and Legal Information Resources.
- The Comprehensive Guide to Bar Admission Requirements is now posted.
- Ethics 2000 Review Status Chart, including status of review and links to committee reports
- Federal and State Courts
- State Implementation of ABA MJP Recommendations
- State Bar Lawyer Mentoring Program
- State and Local Bar Associations
- List of Professionalism Codes
- Professionalism Commissions and Centers
- Directory of State Lawyer Assistance Programs
Alabama
Alaska
- Alaska Rules of Professional Conduct
- Adopted Ethics Opinions
- Code of Judicial Conduct
- Advisory Opinions regarding judicial conduct starting from 1997.
- Alaska Bar Association Ethics Hotline information.
Arizona
- Revised Arizona Code of Judicial Conduct, effective 9/1/09
- Searchable Formal Ethics Opinions from 1985 to the present
- Arizona Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee Opinions since 1976
- The Rules of Professional Conduct Committee provides both formal and informal written ethics opinions to assist members of the State Bar as well as telephone advice.
- Arizona Rules of Professional Conduct
Arkansas
- Revised Arkansas Code of Judicial Conduct, effective 7/1/09
- Procedures of the Arkansas Supreme Court Regulating Professional Conduct of Attorneys at Law
- Rules of Professional Conduct
- Arkansas Code of Judicial Conduct
- Arkansas Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee - Summaries of the advisory opinions since 1991 and a topical index
- Arkansas Bar Association Professional Ethics and Grievance Committee will issue an advisory opinion on a bar member's proposed conduct. There is an administrative charge of $50
- Ethics Advisory Opinions of the Arkansas Bar Association
California
- California Rules of Professional Conduct The Rules of Professional Conduct at the State Bar of California's web site.
- California Ethics Opinions Includes the full text of the ethics opinions issued by the State Bar of California Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) between 1988 to the present. COPRAC plans to add the opinions issued since its inception in 1965 in the near future
- State Bar of California Ethics Hotliner
- Los Angeles County Bar Association Ethics Opinions starting from April 1994 (#476)
- San Diego County Bar Association Formal Legal Ethics Opinions
- San Diego County Bar Association Ethics Hotline
- California Code of Judicial Ethics
- State Bar of California Ethics Hotline, a confidential research service for attorneys only, helps lawyers identify and analyze their professional responsibilities
Colorado
- Colorado Judicial Ethics Advisory Board Opinions
- New Colorado Code of Judicial Conduct, effective July 1, 2010
- Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct
- The Colorado Bar Association's Ethics Committee has lots of other useful information, including Formal Opinions Subject Index, and Formal Opinions Numbered Index (full text, since 1996)
- Colorado Bar Association Ethics Hotline
Connecticut
- Connecticut Statewide Grievance Committee Decisions
- The Connecticut Rules of Professional Conduct and the Connecticut Code of Judicial Conduct are offered in the Official Connecticut Practice Book
Delaware
- Revised Delaware Judges’ Code of Judicial Conduct, effective 11/1/08
- Delaware Rules of Professional Conduct
- Delaware State Bar Association Ethics Opinions starting from 1989.
- Delaware Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee Opinions since 1985
District of Columbia
- District of Columbia Code of Judicial Conduct
- District of Columbia Rules of Professional Conduct
- Ethics Opinions issued by the D.C. Bar Legal Ethics Committee interpreting the D.C. Rules of Professional Conduct
- District of Columbia Bar informal ethics advice
Florida
- Florida Rules of Professional Conduct
- Florida Advertising Regulation and Information
- Florida Unlicensed Practice of Law Information
- Florida Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions
- Ethics Information page of the Florida Bar's Web Site has listing of ethics opinions, which includes a subject index. It also has information abut the Florida Bar Ethics Hotline and procedures for receiving rulings on questions of ethics
- Chapter 17 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar authorizes attorneys licensed to practice in jurisdictions other than Florida to undertake certain activities in Florida while exclusively employed by a business organization without the requirement of taking the bar examination. The Florida Bar's web page has a listing of in house counsel so certified, as well as the application to be become certified.
- Florida Code of Judicial Conduct
- Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee Opinions
- sunEthics - produced by Tim Chinaris
- Center for Ethics and Public Service - University of Miami School of Law
Georgia
- Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct are available at Georgia Bar Association's web site, as are the Advisory Opinions of the State Disciplinary Board, the Formal Advisory Opinions issued by the Georgia Supreme Court, and the Georgia Code of Judicial Conduct
- Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission Opinions
- The Office of the General Counsel operates a Lawyer Helpline for members of the State Bar of Georgia who are faced with dilemmas involving ethics issues
Hawaii
- Hawaii Supreme Court Disciplinary Board Opinions
- Hawaii Rules of Professional Conduct
- Hawaii Code of Judicial Conduct
Idaho
Illinois
- Illinois State Bar Association Ethics Opinions
- Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct
- Illinois Judicial Ethics Opinions since 1993
- Illinois Code of Judicial Conduct
- Illinois State Bar Association attorneys field queries from ISBA members
- The Illinois Supreme Court Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission runs an Ethics Inquiry Program to provide research assistance and guidance regarding ethics issues and the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct
Indiana
- Indiana Rules of Professional Conduct
- Indiana State Bar Association Legal Ethics Committee Advisory Opinions
- Indiana State Bar Association Legal Ethics Telephone Advisory Panel
- Indiana Code of Judicial Conduct
- Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications Advisory Opinions
Iowa
- Iowa Ethics Opinions
- Iowa Rules of Professional Conduct
- Iowa Code of Judicial Conduct (Iowa Court Rules – Chapter 51)
Kansas
- Revised Kansas Code of Judicial Conduct, effective 3/1/09
- Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct
- Kansas Judicial Ethics Advisory Opinions
- Kansas Code of Judicial Conduct
- Kansas Ethics Opinions available online only to members of the Kansas Bar Association
Kentucky
- Revised Kentucky Rules of Professional Conduct effective 7/15/09
- Kentucky Ethics Opinions
- Kentucky Rules of Professional Conduct
- Kentucky Code of Judicial Conduct
- Kentucky Judicial Ethics Opinions
- Kentucky Bar Association (see Ethics Hotline Committee under Law and Ethics)
Louisiana
- Louisiana Rules of Professional Conduct
- Louisiana Ethics Advisory Service and Opinions
- Louisiana Code of Judicial Conduct
Maine
- Maine Bar Discipline Decisions
- Maine Rules of Professional Conduct, effective 8/1/09
- Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar Ethics Opinions
- Maine Code of Judicial Conduct
Maryland
- Maryland Code of Judicial Conduct
- Maryland Judicial Ethics Opinions
- Maryland Rules of Professional Conduct
- Maryland Ethics Opinions available online only to members of the Maryland State Bar Association
- State Bar of Maryland Ethics Hotline
Massachusetts
- Boston Bar Association Ethics Committee Opinions
- Massachusetts: Lawyer Discipline The Massachusetts Office of Bar Counsel and Board of Bar Overseers established the Web Site, Lawyer Discipline in Massachusetts, offering the Massachusetts Rules of Professional Conduct, the Supreme Judicial Court Rules Governing Bar Discipline, the Rules of the Board of Bar Overseers.
- Massachusetts Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinions since 1989
- Massachusetts Code of Judicial Conduct
- Massachusetts Bar Association Ethics Opinions
Michigan
- The Frank J. Kelley Institute of Ethics & the Legal Profession at Michigan State University College of Law
- Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct are available at the State Bar of Michigan's web site
- Michigan Code of Judicial Conduct
- Ethics Opinions are also available at the State Bar of Michigan's web site, although newcomers to the Michigan system are advised to click on "common citations" before reviewing the ethics opinions
- Table of Opinions interpreting Michigan Code of Judicial Conduct
- Table of Opinions interpreting Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct
- State Bar of Michigan Ethics Helpline, reserved for lawyers only
Minnesota
- Revised Minnesota Code of Judicial Conduct, effective 7/1/09.
- Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct
- Minnesota Rules on Lawyers Professional Responsibility and Minnesota Opinions of the Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board are both offered on the Minnesota Court System's web page (in the Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board subdirectory)
- Minnesota Code of Judicial Conduct
- Opinions of the Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board
Mississippi
- Mississippi Rules of Professional Conduct
- Mississippi Ethics Opinions
- Mississippi Code of Judicial Conduct
Missouri
- Missouri Formal Ethics Opinions since 1996.
- Informal Advisory Opinions
- Missouri Rules of Professional Conduct
- Missouri Code of Judicial Conduct
- Missouri Supreme Court Advisory Committee Legal Ethics Counsel
Montana
- Montana Code of Judicial Conduct
- Montana Rules of Professional Conduct and Changes re Rules on Advertising
- Montana Ethics Opinions
- Rules for Lawyer Disciplinary Enforcement
Nebraska
- Nebraska Rules of Professional Conduct
- Nebraska Ethics Opinions
- Nebraska Judicial Ethics Committee Opinions
- Nebraska Code of Judicial Conduct
Nevada
- Nevada Rules of Professional Conduct
- Nevada Code of Judicial Conduct
- State Bar of Nevada Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct Formal Ethics Opinions
- State Bar of Nevada Ethics Hotline
- Nevada Standing Committee on Judicial Ethics and Election Practices - Opinions since 1998
New Hampshire
- New Hampshire Opinions of Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics
- New Hampshire Rules of Professional Conduct
- New Hampshire Ethics Opinions
- The New Hampshire courts web site contains the New Hampshire Rules of Professional Conduct
- New Hampshire Code of Judicial Conduct
New Jersey
- New Jersey Rules of Profesional Conduct
- Opinions of the New Jersey Supreme Court's Ethics Committee
- New Jersey Code of Judicial Conduct
- New Jersey Ethics Support Committee
- New Jersey Judiciary Ethics Telephone Research Hotline
New Mexico
- New Mexico Judicial Conduct Advisory Opinions
- Lawyer's Creed of Professionalism of the State Bar of New Mexico
- New Mexico Rules of Professional Conduct (Click on "Seach New Mexico Rules”; then search "Rules " and select “16. Rules of Professional Conduct"; click OK)
- New Mexico Advisory Ethics Opinions Summaries from 1983 - present.
- New Mexico Code of Judicial Conduct (Click on "Search New Mexico Rules"; then Search " Rules" and select “21. Code of Judicial Conduct"; click OK)
New York
- New York State Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinions
- Model Code of Judicial Conduct for State Administrative Law Judges
- New York Rules of Professional Conduct, effective 4/1/09
- New York Lawyer's Code of Professional Responsibility
- New York Code of Judicial Conduct
- New York Ethics Opinions issued by the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics
- Report on Guidelines on Civility in Litigation is also available
- The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethic Formal Opinions starting from 1986 (#1986-7)
- The New York County Lawyers' Association Ethics Opinions
- Statement of Client Rights and Responsibilities adopted by the Administrative Board of the Courts
- The Suffolk County Bar Association Ethics Opinions
- Association of the Bar of the City of New York Ethics Hotline
- Women's Bar Association of the State of New York Ethics Hotline
North Carolina
- North Carolina Formal Advisory Opinions on Judicial Standards
- North Carolina Ethics Opinions Contains both Final and Proposed Ethics Opinions of
the Ethics Committee of the North Carolina State Bar as adopted by the State Bar Council - North Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct
- North Carolina Code of Judicial Conduct
North Dakota
- Code of Judicial Conduct for Administrative Law Judges
- North Dakota Rules of Professional Conductand Amendments to Rule 7.1
- North Dakota Code of Judicial Conduct
- North Dakota Rules for Lawyer Discipline
- State Bar Association of North Dakota Ethics Committee Opinions
Ohio
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma Rules of Professional Conduct
- The Legal Ethics Advisory Panel of the Oklahoma Bar Association prepares Advisory Opinions
- Oklahoma Code of Judicial Conduct (Appendix 4)
- Oklahoma Judicial Ethics Advisory Opinions
- Oklahoma Office of the General Counsel Ethics Hotline
Oregon
- Code of Ethics for Administrative Law Judges of the Office of Administrative Hearings
- Oregon Rules of Professional Conduct
- Oregon State Bar Ethics Opinion Library
- Oregon Code of Judicial Conduct
- Oregon State Bar attorneys may direct ethics questions to the General Counsel's office
Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct
- Philadelphia Bar Association Ethics Opinions
- Formal Opinions of the Judicial Ethics Committee of the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges and Digests of Informal Opinions
- Pennsylvania Code of Judicial Discipline
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
- Rhode Island Supreme Court Ethics Advisory Panel Opinions
- Rhode Island Code of Judicial Conduct and Canons of Judicial Ethics
- Rhode Island Rules of Professional Conduct
South Carolina
- South Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct (scroll down for Section 407)
- South Carolina Ethics Advisory Opinions
- South Carolina Code of Judicial Conduct at V. Rules Governing the Judiciary and Employees of the Judicial Department
- Supreme Court of South Carolina Judicial Ethics Advisory Opinions
South Dakota
- South Dakota Judicial Qualifications Commission
- State Bar of South Dakota Ethics Opinions
- South Dakota Rules of Professional Conduct
- South Dakota Code of Judicial Conduct
- South Dakota Bar Association Ethics Committee will provide professional opinions to members of the bar to resolve ethical questions related to prospective professional activity
Tennessee
- Tennessee Rules of Professional Conduct
- Tennessee Judicial Ethics Opinions
- Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility Formal Ethics Opinions
- Tennessee Code of Judicial Conduct
Texas
- The Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism (a not-for-profit organization) offers the Rules of Disciplinary Procedure, the Opinions of the Ethics Committee of the Supreme Court, as well as other helpful information
- Texas Code of Ethics for Legal Assistants
- Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility of the Legal Assistants Division of the State Bar of Texas
- The Texas Lawyer's Creed -- A Mandate for Professionalism
- Texas Code of Judicial Conduct
- Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct
- Dallas Bar Association Legal Ethics Opinions from 1972 forward
- Texas Judicial Ethics Opinions
- State Bar of Texas Ethics Hotline
Utah
- Utah Rules of Professional Conduct
- Utah Ethics Advisory Opinions
- Utah Code of Judicial Conduct
- Utah Code of Judicial Conduct Annotated
- Utah Judicial Ethics Opinions since 1988
- Utah State Bar's Office of Professional Conduct’s (“OPC”) Ethics Hotline for Attorneys
Vermont
- Vermont Judicial Ethics Committee Opinions
- Vermont Code of Judicial Conduct
- Vermont Bar Association Advisory Ethics Opinions
- Vermont Rules of Professional Conduct
- Amendments effective September 1, 2009
Virginia
- Virginia Ethics Opinions
- Virginia Professional Guidelines
- Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct
- Virginia Canons of Judicial Conduct
- Virginia State Bar Ethics Hotline
- Virginia Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee Opinions since 1999
- Opinions of the Committee on Lawyer Advertising and Solicitation
Washington
- Washington Rules of Professional Conduct
- Washington Rules for Enforcement of Lawyer Conduct
- Washington Code of Judicial Conduct1 ( effective January 1,2011)
- Washington Discipline Rules for Judges
- Washington State Bar Association Formal Ethics Opinions
- Washington Judicial Ethics Opinions
- Washington State Bar Ethics Line
West Virginia
- Code of Conduct for State Administrative Law Judges
- Legal Ethics Opinions
- Rules of Professional Conduct
- West Virginia Code of Judicial Conduct
- West Virginia Judicial Investigation Commission Index and Synopses of Advisory Opinions and Admonishments
Wisconsin
- Wisconsin Rules of Professional Conduct
- Wisconsin Ethics Opinions
- Wisconsin Code of Judicial Conduct
- Wisconsin Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee Opinions since 1997
- State Bar of Wisconsin Ethics Hotline
Wyoming
Foreign Rules of Professional Conduct
Australia
- Law Council of Australia
- Law Society of the Australian Capital Territory
- Law Society of New South Wales
- Law Society Northern Territory
- Law Society of South Australia
- Law Society of Western Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
Other
- Bar Association of Slovenia
- Bar Association of the Republic of Lithuania
- Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe
- Cyprus Bar Association
- Czech Bar Association
- Finnish Bar Association
- Icelandic Bar Association
- Japan Federation of Bar Associations
- Law Society of Hong Kong
- Law Society of Ireland
- Latvian Council of Sworn Advocates
- Malta
- New Zealand Law Society
- Norwegian Bar Association
- Polish Bar Association
- Slovak Bar Association
- Swedish Bar Association
- The Netherlands
- Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession
- Hofstra University School of Law Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics
- Georgetown Center for the Study of the Legal Profession
- Fordham Law Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics
- Mercer University School of Law Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism
- Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Center on Professionalism at the University of South Carolina School of Law
- New York Law School Center for Professional Values and Practice
- Stanford Center on the Legal Profession
- The University of Akron School of Law Joseph G. Miller and William C. Becker Center for Professional Responsibility
- Thomas M. Cooley Law School Center for Ethics, Service, and Professionalism
- University of Miami School of Law Center for Ethics and Public Service
- University of San Francisco Center for Law and Ethics
- University of St. Thomas Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions
Additional American Bar Association
Ethics and Professional Responsibility Resources
ABA Center for CLE
Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
Section of Antitrust Law
Section of Business Law
- ABA Task Force on Corporate Responsibility
- Professional Conduct Committee
- Firm Counsel Project
- Task Force on Attorney-Client Privilege
- Collection of ethics and professional responsibility program materials from ABA Business Law Section CLE programs. (2012)
Section of Criminal Justice
Section of Dispute Resolution
- Committee on Mediator Ethical Guidance
- Committee on Ethics
- The Code of Ethics for Arbitrators in Commercial Disputes
- Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators
Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources
Section of Family Law
Section of Intellectual Property Law
Section of International Law
- International Anti-Money Laundering and Professional Ethics Committee
- Transnational Legal Practice Committee
Judicial Division
- Ethics and Professionalism Committee
- Model Code of Judicial Conduct for Federal Administrative Law Judges
- Model Code of Judicial Conduct for State Administrative Law Judges
Section of Labor and Employment Law
Law Practice Management Section
Senior Lawyers Division
Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Legal Services Division
- Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs
- Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Professional Liability
- State Pro Bono Ethics Rules
Legal Technology Resource Center
Section of Litigation
- Ethics and Professionalism Committee
- Handbook on Limited Scope Legal Assistance
- Lawyers Doing Business with Their Clients: Identifying and Avoiding Legal and Ethical Dangers - A Report of the Task Force on the Independent Lawyer
- Guidelines for Conduct
- Raise the Bar Recommendation
- Raise the Bar Report
Section Officers Conference
Section of Public Contract Law
Section of Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law
Standing Committee on Amicus Curiae Briefs
Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division
Section of State and Local Government Law
Section of Taxation
Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section
Young Lawyers Division
American Immigration Lawyers Association (ethics articles and publications)
Association of Professonal Responsibility Lawyers (APRL) , an independent national organization of lawyers concentrating in the fields of professional responsibility and legal ethics.
Judicial Conduct Organizations A listing of Judicial Conduct Organizations offered by the American Judicature Society.
Model Code of Professional Responsibility for Paralegals A Model Code of Professional Responsibility for Paralegals offered by The National Federation of Paralegals Associations (NFPA).
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Ethics Opinions (NACDL)
The National Center for Prosecution Ethics
The National Client Protection Organization is an educational resource for the exchange of information among law client protection funds throughout the United States and Canada.
National Conference of Bar Examiners
The National Council of Lawyer Disciplinary Boards
The National Conference of Chief Justices' National Action Plan on Lawyer Conduct and Professionalism and the Implementation Plan for the National Action Plan .
The National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NPPA's) ethics resources including the Paralegal Model Code of Professional Responsibility, guidelines for ethics and disciplinary opinions, conflicts of interest and ethics application to paralegals.
National Organization of Bar Counsel The National Organization of Bar Counsel (NOBC) offers a directory of Bar Counsel, general contact information, and a current developments page containing summaries of recent cases involving attorney discipline.
NOBC-APRL Joint Committee on Aging Lawyers Final Report (May, 2007)
United States Patent and Trademark Office (Code of Professional Responsibility – Section 10.20 et seq.)
American Legal Ethics Library at Legal Information Institute offers many state rules, codes, ethics opinions, and narratives drafted for the American Legal Ethics Library. They will be adding new material as it becomes available.
Best Practices for Legal Education Blog
Code of Conduct for United States Judges
Revised Code of Conduct for United States Judges, effective 7/1/09
Department of Justice, Office of Professional Responsibility
FindLaw: Ethics and Profesional Responsibility Listing Findlaw's ethics and professional responsibility links.
Freivogel on Conflicts A practical online guide to conflicts of interest for lawyers with sophisticated business and litigation practices.
Google Scholar - (research resource)
Judicial Ethics Forum - An Academic Discussion of Judicial Ethics, Discipline & Disqualification
LEGALETHICS.COM - Focusing on the ethical issues associated with the use of technology by legal professionals.
Legal Ethics Forum A blog for discussion of legal ethics and the legal profession.
