ETHICSearch
ABA Ethics Research Service
About Us
Need help with a sticky ethics issue?  |
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 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.
Eyes on Ethics (Your ABA)
- 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)
- When Two Plus Doesn't Equal Four—Updated (December, 2007)
- Oh Where, Oh Where, Has My Client Gone? (November, 2007)
- Going. Going. Gone! Or may a lawyer provide legal services as an item in a charitable auction? (October, 2007)
- Are There Any Doctors or Associates in the House? (September, 2007)
- Party Lines (Annual Meeting, 2007)
- Recent ABA Ethics Opinions (July, 2007)
- Can a Lawyer Accept Referral Fees or Commissions from Non-Lawyers? (June, 2007)
- Forming Partnerships with Foreign Lawyers (May, 2007)
- May a lawyer secretly record conversations? (April, 2007)
- Law Firm Mergers or Don’t get burned by a hot potato (March, 2007)
- Recent ABA Ethics Opinions (February, 2007)
- New New York Rules on Lawyer Advertising (January, 2007)
- More Data on Metadata (December, 2006)
- Winding Down and Moving On (November, 2006)
- "Return to Sender" Revisited (October, 2006)
- Whose File is it Anyway? (September, 2006)
- Litigation Financing (August, 2006)
- When two plus two doesn't equal four (July, 2006)
- Letters to the Editor (July, 2006)
- When a lawyer becomes mentally impaired (June, 2006)
- Taking client's stock for fees (May, 2006)
- Can a lawyer be a partner in more than one firm? (April, 2006)
- When a Lawyer Dies (March, 2006)
- Would you like a financial plan with that? (February, 2006)
- What's the Meta with Metadata? (January, 2006)
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
Contact us
ETHICSearch
ABA Center for Professional Responsibility
321 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: 800-285-2221 (option 8)
Fax: 312-988-5491
ethicsearch@staff.abanet.org
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