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States
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.
- Federal and State Courts
- State Implementation of ABA MJP Recommendations
- State Bar Lawyer Mentoring Program
- List of Professionalism Codes
- Professionalism Commissions and Centers
- Directory of State Lawyer Assistance Programs
- Directory of Chairs of State Ethics/Professional Responsibility Committees
Alabama
- Alabama Rules of Professional Conduct
- Alabama Ethics Opinions
- Alabama Canons of Judicial Ethics
- Alabama Ethics Inquiries
Alaska
- Alaska Rules of Professional Conduct
- Adopted Ethics Opinions
- State of Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct
- Advisory Opinions regarding judicial conduct starting from 1997
- Alaska Bar Association Ethics Hotline information.
Arizona
- Arizona Code of Judicial Conduct
- Searchable Formal Ethics Opinions from 1985 to the present
- Arizona Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee Opinions since 1976
- Arizona Rules of Professional Conduct
- Arizona State Bar Ethics Hotline
Arkansas
- 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
- 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 since 1965.
- State Bar of California Ethics Hotline
- 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
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
- The Connecticut Rules of Professional Conduct and the Connecticut Code of Judicial Conduct are offered in the Offiial Connecticut Practice Book
- Connecticut Bar Association Professional Ethics Committee
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
- Delaware Bar Association Professional Ethics Committee
District of Columbia
- Disciplinary Decisions since 1979
- 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
- D.C. Bar Legal Ethics Hotline
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 about the Florida Bar Ethics Hotline and procedures for receiving rulings on questions of ethics
- Florida Code of Judicial Conduct
- Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee Opinions
- sunEthics - produced by Tim Chinaris
- Florida Bar Ethics Hotline
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 and the Georgia Code of Judicial Conduct
- Georgia Ethics Opinions
- 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 Code of Judicial Conduct
Idaho
- Idaho Code of Judicial Conduct
- Idaho Ethics Advice Hotline
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 Code of Judicial Conduct
- Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications Advisory Opinions
- Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission 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 Rukes of Professional Conduct
- Kansas Judicial Ethics Advisory Opinions
- Kansas Ethics Opinions available online only to members of the Kansas Bar Association
Kentucky
- Kentucky Ethics Opinions
- Kentucky Rules of Professional Conduct
- Kentucky Code of Judicial Conduct
- Kentucky Judicial Ethics Opinions
- Kentucky Ethics Hotline
Louisiana
- Louisiana Rules of Professional Conduct
- Louisiana Ethics Advisory Service and Opinions
- Louisiana Code of Judicial Conduct
- Louisiana State Bar Association Ethics Advisory Service
Maine
- Maine Bar Discipline Decisions
- Maine Rules of Professional Conduct
- Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar Ethics Opinions
- Maine Code of Judicial Conduct
- Maine Board of Bar Overseers Ethics Helpline
Maryland
- Maryland Code of Judicial Conduct
- Maryland Judicial Ethics Opinions
- Maryland Rules of Professional Conduct
- Maryland Ethics Opinions and Ethics Hotline available online only to members of the Maryland State Bar Association
Massachusetts
- Boston Bar Association Ethics Committee Opinions
- Massachusetts Rules of Professional Conduct
- Massachusetts 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
- Massachusetts Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics – Ethical Inquiries
Michigan
- 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
- State Bar of Michigan Ethics Helpline, reserved for lawyers only
Minnesota
- Minnesota Code of Judicial Conduct
- Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct
- Minnesota Opinions of the Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board
Mississippi
- Mississippi Rules of Professional Conduct
- Mississippi Bar 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
- 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
- Opinions of the Nevada Standing Committee on Judicial Ethics
New Hampshire
- New Hampshire Opinions of Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics
- 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 Hampshire Ethics Advice (see “how to obtain answers”)
New Jersey
- New Jersey Rules of Professional Conduct
- Opinions of the New Jersey Supreme Court's Ethics Committee
- New Jersey Code of Judicial Conduct
- 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 "Search 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 York
- Bar Association of Nassau County
- 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 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 Bar 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 Carolina State Bar – Obtaining Ethics Advice
North Dakota
- Code of Judicial Conduct for Administrative Law Judges
- North Dakota Rules of Professional Conduct and 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
- State Bar Association of North Dakota - Ethics Committee
Ohio
- Ohio Code of Judicial Conduct
- Ohio Rules of Professional Conduct
- Ohio Board of Professional Conduct Advisory Opinions
- Ohio Board of Professional Conduct Ethics Hotline
- Ohio State Bar Association Ethics Committee
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 Conduct
- Pennsylvania Bar Association Ethics Hotline
Puerto Rico
- Puerto Rico Canons of Professional Ethics (in Spanish)
- Canons of Judicial Ethics of Puerto Rico (in Spanish)
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 (not available online)
- 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 Code of Judicial Conduct
- Vermont Bar Association Advisory Ethics Opinions
- Vermont Rules of Professional Conduct
Virginia
- Virginia Ethics Opinions (Summaries)
- Virginia Rules of Professional 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 Conduct ( 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
- Rules of Professional Conduct
- West Virginia Code of Judicial Conduct
- West Virginia Judicial Investigation Commision Index and Synopses of Advisory Opinions and Admonishments
- West Virginia State Bar Ethics Assistance (see inquiry number noted)
Wisconsin
- Wisconsin Rules of Professional Conduct
- Wisconsin Ethics Opinions
- Wisconsin Code of Judicial Conduct
- Wisconsin Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee Opinions since 1997
- Wisconsin State Bar Association Ethics Hotline (see state bar ethics consultant number at bottom of page)
Wyoming
- Wyoming Rules of Professional Conduct
- Wyoming Code of Judicial Conduct
- Wyoming State Bar Association Ethics Hotline