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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

Overview on Finding Books and Articles

This page presents some tools and tips for finding books and law review articles about legal ethics and professional responsibility.

For more advice, contact a research librarian or call the research desk at 415-422-6773.

Finding Books

To find books at the Zief Law Library on legal ethics, professional conduct, and the regulation of attorneys, use Ignacio, the USF online catalog. After your run your search, refine by "Location" to "Law Stacks" to limit your results to books at the Zief Library.

Finding Law Review Articles with Index to Legal Periodicals

Using Index to Legal Periodicals (ILP) is another good, quick way to get citations to articles about legal ethics and professional responsibility. (Index to Legal Periodicals is just one of many tools for finding articles in law reviews and law journals. For more, see the Zief Law Library's Finding Articles research guide.)

You can search ILP by keyword (choose "Select a Field (optional)") or you can try these search terms as "SU Subject Terms" searches in ILP:

  • Admission to the Bar
  • Attorney Advertising
  • Attorney-Client Privilege
  • Attorneys
  • Attorneys' Fees
  • Champerty and Maintenance
  • Ethics
  • Law Firms
  • Law Office Management
  • Legal Ethics
  • Legal Malpractice
  • Legal Profession
  • Prosecutorial Misconduct
  • Unauthorized Practice of Law
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