
Materials on Legal Ethics and Litigation Financing
I) State Bar Ethics Opinions with links to the full text where available
1) Arizona State Bar Opinion 2001-07 (2001)
2) Arizona State Bar Opinion 91-22 (1991)
3) Connecticut Opinion 99-42 (9/17/99)
4) District of Columbia Opinion 196 (1/17/89)
5) Florida Ethics Op. 00-3 (2002)
6) Hawaii Opinion 34 (8/2/94)
7) Illinois Opinion 92-9 (1/22/93) Financial assistance to clients; Loans.
8) Kentucky Opinion E-420 (11/15/02)
10) Maryland Opinion 2001-12 (3/29/01)
11) Maryland Opinion 00-45 (12/12/00)
12) Maryland Opinion 94-45 (8/15/94)
13) Maryland Opinion 92-25 (10/30/91)
14) Maryland Opinion 89-15 (10/25/88)
15) Michigan Opinion RI-321 (6/29/00)
16) Missouri Opinion 2003-0022
17) Missouri Opinion 20000229
18) New Jersey Opinion 691
19) New Mexico Opinion 1986-2
20) New York State 769 (2003)
21) New York State 754 (2/25/02)
22) New York State Bar Opinion 666 (1994)
23) Oregon State Bar Association Board of Governors Opinion Number 1993-133, Approved: January 1993
24) Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline of the Ohio Supreme Court Opinion 94-11
25) Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline of the Ohio Supreme Court Opinion 99-6 (1999)
[Withdrawn-by Board on October 3, 2003 due to Rancman v. Interim Settlement Funding Corp., 99 Ohio St.3d 121, 2003-Ohio-2721]
26) Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline of the Ohio Supreme Court Opinion 2000-01 (2000)
27) Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline of the Ohio Supreme Court Opinion 2001-03
28) Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline of the Ohio Supreme Court Opinion 2002-2 (4/5/02)
29) Pennsylvania Opinion 99-107 (10/12/99)
30) Pennsylvania Opinion 93-145 (10/11/93)
31) Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Opinion 99-8 (2/00)
32) Philadelphia Bar Association Opinion 91-9 (1991)
33) Philadelphia Bar Association Opinion 99-4
34) South Carolina Opinion 94-04 (1994)
35) South Carolina Opinion 92-06 (1992)
36) South Carolina Opinion 91-15
41) Utah State Bar Ethics Advisory Opinion Committee, Opinion 97-11, 12/5/97
42) Virginia Opinion 1764 (5/6/02)
43) Virginia Opinion 1441 (1/6/92)
44) Virginia Opinion 1379 (11/30/90)
45) Virginia Opinion 1155 (12/15/88)
II. Law Review Articles
Yifat Shaltiel, & John Cofresi Litigation Lending For Personal Needs Act: A Regulatory Framework To Legitimatize Third Party Litigation Finance 58 Consumer Fin. L. Q. Rep. 347 (2004)
Kenneth L. Jorgensen, Presettlement Funding Agreements: Benefit or Burden, 61 Bench & B. Minn. 14 (2004)
Andrew Hananel & David Staubitz, The Ethics of Law Loans in the post-Rancman Era, 17 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 795 (2004)
Douglas R. Richmond, Other People's Money: The Ethics of Litigation Funding, 56 Mercer L.Rev. 649 (2005).


