Over the years, various state and local bar organizations have issued reports on legal opinions. Below are links to certain recent reports, as a research aid to those engaged in opinion practice. In establishing these links, the Legal Opinions Committee does not represent that these are all reports that exist, is not undertaking to update these links as reports are modified or re-issued, and does not necessarily endorse the content of these reports.

• Boston
  • Boston Bar Association Streamlined Form of Closing Opinion (September 20, 2005)
• California
  • State Bar of California Business Law Section Report on Third-Party Remedies Opinions (2007 Update)
  • Legal Opinions in Business Transactions (Excluding the Remedies Opinion), State Bar of California Business Law Section Corporations Committee (2007 Printing)
  • Report of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California on Legal Opinions in Personal Property Secured Transactions (June 2005)
• Maryland
  • 2007 Report on Lawyers' Opinions in Business Transactions by the Special Joint Committee of the Section of Business Law and the Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning of the Maryland State Bar Association, Inc. (June 14, 2007)
• North Carolina
  • Report of the Legal Opinion Committee of the Business Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association: Third-Party Legal Opinions in Business Transactions, Second Edition (March 30, 2004)
• Pennsylvania
  • Pennsylvania Third-Party Legal Opinion Report of the Legal Opinion Committee of the Business Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association
  • Model Closing Opinion Letter (Annotated)