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What's New!
- Read the January Eye on Ethics from Your ABA "Settlement agreements, confidentiality provisions and restrictions on the right to practice".
- The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 has posted its Invited Speaker and Public Hearing Schedule for Feb. 5, 2010 in Orlando, FL.
- Nominations for the inaugural Rosner & Rosner Young Lawyers Professionalism Award are now being accepted.
- Congratulations to Center Director Jeanne P. Gray, recipient of the 2010 Charles W. Kettlewell Legal Ethics Advisors Award from the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers.
- Nominations for the 2010 E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award are now being accepted. Deadline is March 31, 2010.
- The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 has released its Preliminary Issues Outline for comment.
- ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 09-455 "Disclosure of Conflicts Information When Lawyers Move Between Law Firms" is now available.
- Compendium of Professional Responsibility Rules and Standards, 2010 Edition is now available.
- 2009 Journal of the Professional Lawyer is now available.
