October 2007

Updated by Paul Hellyer

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Treatises, Journals & Other Secondary Sources

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Library Materials

Library Catalog

To search for books, journals, and audiovisual materials held by William & Mary libraries, use the online catalog.

Search Tips:

• Subject Query: 'legal ethics'
• Individual jurisdictions can be searched, e.g. 'legal ethics' and Virginia

To search for materials from other libraries, use the Worldcat database.

Shelf Browsing

To browse the library's shelves for books on professional responsibility and legal ethics, look in or around call numbers KF305 and KF306 or, for judicial ethics, KF8779.  Some relevant books are on reserve.

Ethics Rules & Opinions

National

Model Code of Judicial Conduct (ABA)
     Annotated: KF8779 A96 2004 (STACKS)
     Unannotated: KF306 .A755 2007 (RESERVE)  Lexis  Westlaw

Model Rules of Professional Conduct (ABA)
     Annotated: KF305 A23 2007 (RESERVE)  Westlaw
     Unannotated: Lexis

ABA Ethics Opinions
     Westlaw  Lexis (formal opinions)  Lexis (informal opinions)

ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct (includes state, local and ABA ethics opinions)

     KF305 A8A4 (RESERVE)  Westlaw  BNA

Compendium of Client Protection Rules (ABA)
     KF314 .C45 C65 2007 (STACKS)

Combined State Case Law and Ethics Opinions
     Lexis

State Ethics Opinions--Combined
     Westlaw

Virginia

Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct

     In Virginia Rules Annotated KFV2431 A2 (STACKS) • State Bar Web site

     Lexis (in Va. Code Annotated)  Westlaw (in Va. Court Rules)

Virginia State Bar Ethics Opinions

     State Bar Web site  Lexis  Westlaw (in Va. Statutes Annotated)

Other States

Check Lexis, Westlaw, the state code in print, or the websites of the state bar association and/or state court system.

Treatises, Journals & Other Secondary Sources

Selected Treatises & Restatement

ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct

     KF305 A8A4 (RESERVE)  Westlaw  BNA

Geoffrey C. Hazard, The Law of Lawyering (3rd ed. 2001)

     KF306 H33 2001 (STACKS)

Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers 

     KF395 A2L383 2000 (STACKS)  Lexis   Westlaw

Jeffrey M. Shaman, Judicial Conduct and Ethics (3rd ed. 2000)
     KF8779 S47 2000 (STACKS)

Periodical Indexes

Index to Legal Periodicals

ILP is a multi-volume print resource providing subject and author indexing.  The volumes are not cumulative.

Coverage: 1770-2000.  No longer updated by library.

Location: ZZ66 .I534 (REFERENCE)

Legal Trac

Legal Trac is an electronic database that indexes articles from law reviews, bar association publications, legal magazines and legal newspapers.  Some articles are provided in full text.

Coverage: 1980-present.

Subject Queries:

• Legal ethics
• Conflicts of interest (Lawyers)
• Legal etiquette

Selected Periodicals on Professional Responsibility & Legal Ethics

Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal
      Lexis  Westlaw  HeinOnline

Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics
      Lexis  Westlaw  Hein Online

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics (1996-1999)
      Lexis  Westlaw

Journal of the Legal Profession
      Lexis  Westlaw

Legal Ethics Law Review Articles, Combined
      Lexis

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy
      Lexis  Westlaw  HeinOnline

Free Web Sites

American Bar Association: Center for Professional Responsibility

Includes reports, surveys, news on recent developments, abstracts of the ABA's ethics opinions, links to state ethics rules, and other resources on legal ethics.

American Legal Ethics Library

Part of Cornell's Legal Information Institute (LII).  Features original commentaries on ethics rules for various states and topics.

Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers

"An independent national organization of lawyers concentrating in the fields of professional responsibility and legal ethics."

Center on Professionalism

From the University of South Carolina School of Law.  Has a good bibliography of articles, reports, initiatives and other resources on a variety of legal ethics topics.

Legal Ethics Forum

A popular blog on legal ethics authored by several law professors.

LegalEthics.com

Has news, feature articles, and state-by-state links to ethics rules and opinions.

Virginia State Bar

Includes Virginia's Rules of Professional Conduct and advisory opinions issued by the Standing Committee on Legal Ethics, plus other information about attorney discipline and ethics in Virginia.


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