Rules and Codes
Illinois Supreme Court: www.state.il.us/court
Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct: www.state.il.us/court/SupremeCourt/Rules/Art_VIII/
Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct at Cornell: www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/il/code/
Code of Judicial Conduct: www.iardc.org/rulesjudcode.html
Rules of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission: www.iardc.org/rulescomARDC.html
Rules of the Board of Admission to the Bar and Committees on Character and Fitness: www.iardc.org/rulesadmissions.html
ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (1983): www.abanet.org/cpr/mrpc/model_rules.html
ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility (1969): www.abanet.org/cpr/mrpc/mcpr.pdf
1908 Canons of Professional Ethics (last amended in 1963): www.abanet.org/cpr/mrpc/Canons_Ethics.pdf
Annotated Code of Professional Responsibility (1979), American Bar Association.
Annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct (3d ed. 1996), American Bar Association: www.abanet.org/cpr/le-rules.html
Additional Websites
American Legal Ethics Library, Cornell Law School: www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/
Cornell Legal Information Institute: www.law.cornell.edu/
ABA Center for Professional Responsibility: www.abanet.org/cpr
The Bar Examiner, National Conference of Bar Examiners, Chicago IL.
Lawyers’ Liability Review: www.versuslaw.com
Professional Liability Reporter: www.westgroup.com
FindLaw: www.findlaw.com
Internet Legal Services: www.Legalethics.com
Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Georgetown University: www.law.georgetown.edu/journals/ethics/
Journal of Law and Religion Hamline, University School of Law: www.web.hamline.edu/law/jlr/index.html
Journal of the Legal Profession, University of Alabama School of Law: www.law.ua.edu/jlp/
Online Journal of Ethics, University of St. Thomas: www.stthom.edu/cbes/
New York Legal Ethics: www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/ny/narr/NY_NARR_1_03.HTM
Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers: www.aprl.net/
Legal Ethics Forum: www.legalethicsforum.com/
Websites in Illinois
The MCLE Board: www.mcleboard.org
The Commission on Professionalism: www.ilsccp.org
The Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission: www.iardc.org
Illinois Lawyers’ Assistance Program, Inc: www.illinoislap.org
The Judicial Inquiry Board: www.state.il.us/jib
The Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois: www.ltf.org
Articles, Books, Digests or Manuals
ISBA/CBA Joint Committee Report on Ethics 2000: www.isba.org/ethics2000.pdf
CBA Young Lawyers Professional Responsibility Guide: www.lsccp.org/sites/default/files/pr_handbook_final_2007.pdf
Hazard, Geoffrey and Wayne Hodes, The Law of Lawyering, Prentice-Hall, annual supplements 1990-1997.
Shaman, Lubet & Alfini, Judicial Conduct and Ethics, The Michie Company, 1995.
The Annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct, Third Edition, American Bar Association, 1996.
Rice, Paul, Attorney-Client Privilege in the United States, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, 1996 and updates,
ABA/BNA Lawyers Manual on Professional Conduct, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 1984 and Supplements.
Sedler, Robert, Across State Lines-Applying the Conflict of Laws to Your Practice, Section of General Practice, American Bar Association, 1989.
Ambrosio, Michael and Denis McLaughlin, "The Use of Expert Witness in Establishing Liability in Legal Malpractice Cases," 61 Temple L Rev 1351 (1988).
Solomon, Debora L., ed, Digest of Judicial Ethics Advisory Opinions, American Judicature Society, 1996.
Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Academic Press, 1998.
Epstein, Edna Selan, The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine, 3rd Ed., ABA Section of Litigation (1997).
Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
Lawyer Regulation for a New Century-Report of the Commission on Evaluation of Disciplinary Enforcement, American Bar Association, Center for Professional Responsibility, 1992.
PC-Ethix (software) Full Text Ethics and Disciplinary Research & Retrieval System, VERDIX, Inc., Bloomfield Hills, MI.
Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyer, The American Law Institute, 4025 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3099.
Niehoff, Leonard M., Daniel P. Malone and Debra Auerbach, The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work-Product Doctrine in Michigan, The Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 1992.
Duhl, Stuart, ed, The Bar Examiners’ Handbook, Second Edition, Dartnell Press, 1980.
Milord, Lisa L., The Development of the ABA Judicial Code, Center for Professional Responsibility, American Bar Association (1992).
The Professional Lawyer, American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility, Standing Committee on Professionalism (periodical).
ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct; Bureau of National Affairs, 1231 25th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20037.
Geoffrey Hazard and Wayne Hodes, The Law of Lawyering: A Handbook on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct (2d ed. 1990); www.aspenpublishers.com
The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, 600 New Jersey Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20001.
Professor Charles W. Wolfram of Cornell Law School; Modern Legal Ethics (1986); www.westgroup.com
National Reporter on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
Risks of Violation Rules of Professional Responsibility by Reason of the Increased Disparity Among the States, 45 Bus. Law. 1229 (1990).
Symposium, Ethics and the Multijurisdictional Practice of Law, 36 S. Tex. L. Rev. 657 (1995).
Restatement of the Law Third, The Law Governing Lawyers. The American Law Institute 405 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104-3009; www.ali.org/ali/catpage.htm
Robert W. Hillman, Hillman on Lawyer Mobility; The Law and Ethics of Partner Withdrawals and Law Firm Breakups (2d ed. 1998); www.aspenpublishers.com
Jacob A. Stein, The Law of Law Firms (1994); www.westgroup.com
George H. Cain, American Bar Association, Senior Lawyers Division, Law Partnership: Its Rights and Responsibilities (2d ed. 1999); www.abanet.org/sclawyers/lawpart.html
Third-Party "Closing" Opinions, by the TriBar Opinion Committee, 53 Business Lawyer 591 (1998).
Legal Opinion Principles, by the Committee on Legal Opinions of the ABA Business Law Section, 53 Business Lawyer 831 (1998).
Scott Fitzgibbon and Donald W. Glazer, Fitzgibbon and Glazer on Legal Opinions (1992); www.aspenpublishers.com
M. John Sterba, Jr., Drafting Legal Opinion Letters (2d ed. 1992); www.aspenpublishers.com