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Legal Ethics Research

This guide focuses on the codes of professional ethics and ethics opinions available from the American Bar Association, and various state bar associations.

Treatises, Handbooks, Introductions

GETTING STARTED

Consult these sources for a background or overview of key issues on professional responsibility:

Understanding Lawyers' Ethics by Monroe H. Freedman
Call Number: KF306 .F76 2016 - Reserve
Reserve
Legal Ethics in a Nutshell by Ronald D. Rotunda
Call Number: KF306 .R681 2018 - Reserve
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Professional Responsibility and Regulation by Deborah L. Rhode
Call Number: KF306 .R468 2007 - Reserve
Reserve
Modern Legal Ethics by Charles W. Wolfram
Call Number: KF306 .W59 1986
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LEGAL ETHICS TREATISES AND GUIDES IN CHASTEK LIBRARY

Geoffrey C. Hazard, W. William Hodes & John S. Dzienkowski, The Law of Lawyering (4th ed. 2015).
KF306 .H333 – Second Floor Reference
Legal Ethics: the Lawyer's Deskbook on Professional Responsibliity (annual).
KF306 .R68 - Second Floor Reference
Ronald E. Mallen & Jeffrey M. Smith, Legal Malpractice (annual).
KF313.M29 – Third Floor

Research Guides

Lee F. Peoples, Legal Ethics: A Legal Research Guide (2d ed. 2006).
KF306 .P46 2006 - Second Floor Reference
Patrick G. Reavey, Legal Malpractice: A Research Guide for Lawyers and Law Students (1995).

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