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Center for Professional Responsibility



ABA FORMAL ETHICS OPINIONS INDEX BY SUBJECT

The following subject index has been created in order to make your search easier. Simply select a term below to find all the ethics opinions associated with that subject. The links will direct you to the ABA bookstore to purchase a pdf or hard copy.

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Subject Index

  • Advice to Client
  • Disabled lawyers
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  • Limited liability partnerships
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  • Arbitration and Mediation
  • Discharge of lawyer
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  • Mental illness
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  • Attorney-client privilege
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  • Disciplinary proceedings
  • Misrepresentation
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  • Bail
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  • Disclosure
  • Multistate practice
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  • Billing
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  • Disqualification
  • Name of firm
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  • Board of directors
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  • Division of fees
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  • Negotiations
  • Business transactions w/ client
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  • E-mail
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  • Nonlawyers
  • Citation of unpublished opinions
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  • Estates
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  • Of counsel designation
  • Client files
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  • Expert witnesses
  • Partnerships
  • Client fraud
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  • Fees
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  • Prepaid legal services
  • Client funds and property
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  • Fee agreements
  • Pro Bono
  • Client perjury
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  • Fees paid by third party
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  • Pro se representation
  • Co-counsel
  • Financial assistance to clients
  • Prospective clients
  • Collaborative Law
  • Foreign lawyers
  • Recording conversations
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  • Communication w/adverse persons
  • Former judges
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  • Reporting misconduct of another lawyer
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  • Communication with corporate employees
  • Frivolous arguments
  • Restrictions on a lawyer's practice
  • Communication w/represented persons
  • Government lawyers
  • Retirement
  • Communication w/unrepresented parties
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  • Guardians and guardianships
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  • Scope of representation
  • Competence
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  • Imputed disqualification
  • Screening
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  • Confidentiality
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  • In-house counsel
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  • Settlements
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  • Conflicts of interest
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  • Insurance representation
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  • Sex with clients
  • Contingent fees
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  • Judges
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  • Solicitation
  • Corporate Counsel
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  • Judicial disqualifiation
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  • Temporary lawyers
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  • Court-appointed lawyer
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  • Law firms
  • Threatening criminal prosecution or disciplinary action
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  • Court, obligations
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  • Lawyer-client relationship
  • Wills
  • Court rules
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  • Lawyer representing lawyer
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  • Withdrawal from representation
  • Deceased lawyers
  • Legal Aid
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  • Disabled clients
  • Legal Malpractice
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    Advice to client Arbitration and Mediation Attorney-client privilege see Confidentiality

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    Bail Billing see also Fees Board of directors Business transactions with client

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    Citation of unpublished opinions Client files Client fraud see also Client perjury Client funds and property Client perjury

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    Co-counsel Collaborative Law Communication with adverse persons see also Communication with corporate employees Communication with corporate employees

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    Communication with represented persons Communication with unrepresented parties Competence

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    Confidentiality see also Disclosure

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    Conflicts of interest Contingent fees Corporate counsel see also In-house counsel

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    Court-appointed lawyer

    Court, obligations

    Court rules Deceased lawyers Disabled clients

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    Disabled lawyers Discharge of lawyer Disciplinary proceedings

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    Disclosure Disqualification Division of fees

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    E-Mail Estates Expert witnesses Fees see also Division of fees, Arbitration and Mediation

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    Fee agreements Fees paid by third party Financial assistance to clients Foreign lawyers Former judges

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    Frivolous arguments Government lawyers Guardians and guardianships

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    Imputed disqualification In-house counsel see also Corporate counsel Insurance representation Judges

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    Judicial disqualification Law firms Lawyer-client relationship Lawyer representing lawyer Legal Aid

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    Legal Malpractice Limited liability partnerships Mental illness

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    Misrepresentation Multistate practice Name of firm

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    Negotiations Nonlawyers Of counsel designation

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    Partnerships Prepaid legal services Pro Bono Pro se represenntation

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    Prospective clients Recording conversations Reporting misconduct of another lawyer

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    Restrictions on a lawyer's practice Retirement Scope of Representation

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    Screening Settlements Sex with clients Temporary lawyers Threatening criminal prosecution or disciplinary action Wills Withdrawal from representation

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