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ETHICSearch is an excellent way to find the right resources to help you understand and resolve ethics questions that come up in your law practice. Staffed by lawyers with a combined 30-plus years' experience in legal ethics research, ETHICSearch will help you locate citations to relevant ABA rules, ethics opinions, and other ethics resources that relate to your inquiry. ETHICSearch is restricted to lawyers and other legal professionals, including law students and law clerks.
Most searches are free of charge! There's no charge for an initial consultation and preliminary research. In most cases the ETHICSearch lawyer can answer your question immediately. If you require extensive additional research, you will be charged an hourly rate after consultation with the ETHICSearch Director.
To get started, simply contact us by calling 800-285-2221 (option 8) or via our online form with your ethics question. Most inquiries are handled on a same day basis. Expedited same day service and fax and mailing services can also be arranged.
Eye on Ethics (Your ABA)
- Client confidentiality: Lawyer to lawyer consultations (June, 2009)
- Ringing or stinging endorsements? (May,2009)
- Cross-border representation of your client (April 2009)
- Can you take the credit? (March 2009)
- Keeping your office-sharing arrangements squeaky clean under the ethics rules (February 2009)
- Recent ethics opinions (January 2009)
- Legal ethics research: Who you gonna call? (December 2008)
- Quick and Easy Ethics Tips for new lawyers (November 2008)
- Making threats (October 2008)
- Recent ethics opinion: outsourcing (September 2008)
- Lawyer as legislator (August 2008)
- Lawyer as lobbyist (July 2008)
- Piles of files (June 2008)
- Recent ethics opinions (May 2008)
- Lawyer advertising (or incentivising): offering discounts or coupons to prospective clients (April 2008)
- Breaking up is hard to do (March 2008)
- From paper to kilobytes-updated (February, 2008)
- Recent ABA Ethics Opinions (January, 2008)
Resources
- “When is a client not a client? New ethics opinion discusses appointed lawyers' ethical duties to unwilling clients” by Eileen Libby
- Top Ten Ethics Traps (ABA Journal, Nov. 2007)
- Message to ABA Young Lawyers
- Confidentiality, Privilege: A Basic Value in Two Different Applications
- Hanging out Your Shingle without Hanging Yourself out to Dry - 10 Quick and Easy Ethics Tips for New Lawyers
- Cross-Border Representation of Your Client
- What Lurks Within: Hidden Metadata in Electronic Documents Can Win or Lose Your Case
- From Paper to Kilobytes II
- When Two Plus Two Doesn't Equal Four II
- Keeping Your Office Sharing Arrangements with Other Lawyers Squeaky Clean Under the Ethics Rules
- Materials for Research in Legal Ethics
- Message to Senior Lawyers
- Ethics Checklist for Solo and Small Firm Practice
Contact us
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ABA Center for Professional Responsibility
321 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: 800-285-2221 (option 8)
Fax: 312-988-5491
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