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Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Research

Finding professional responsibility rules (ABA and California) and ethics opinions, as well as practice guides, books and articles on legal ethics and professional responsibility

ABA Formal Opinions

The ABA's Center for Professional Responsibility does not make its opinions available to non-members on its web site. The following are alternative sources.

ABA Informal & Advisory Opinions

The ABA issued informal opinions until 1989.

California State Bar Ethics Opinions

California State Bar Court Opinions

The following three sources — one in print, one on Lexis, and one on Westlaw — are the best sources for opinions of the California State Bar Court. (The State Bar Court posts only selected post-2010 opinions on its web site.)

Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) Ethics Opinions

Los Angeles County Bar Association Ethics Opinions

Orange County Bar Association Ethics Opinions

San Diego County Bar Association Ethics Opinions

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