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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)

9) Maine Opinion 177

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[Withdrawn-by Board on October 3, 2003 due to Rancman v. Interim Settlement Funding Corp., 99 Ohio St.3d 121, 2003-Ohio-2721]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

37) Texas Opinion 483

38) Texas Opinion 481

39) Texas Opinion 465

40) Utah Opinion 02-01

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).

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