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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

Multi-State Sources for Ethics Opinions

New York State and Local Bar Ethics Opinions

Other Individual State Ethics Opinion Sources

The ABA is a great source for links to freely-available ethics opinions.

Westlaw subscribers can search individual state ethics opinions by typing the appropriate source name in the search box, and selecting the resulting source from the "Looking for this?" menue. Follow this format: "NAME-OF-STATE Legal Ethics Opinions." For example, for New Jersey, type "New Jersey Legal Ethics Opinions."

Also, the Zief Library has a handful of older state legal ethics opinions in print, as noted below.

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