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	Legal ethics -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Legal ethics refers to an (A system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct) ethical code governing those in the (The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system) practice of law.
		American (A graduate school offering study leading to a law degree) law schools are required to offer a course in (additional info and facts about professional responsibility) professional responsibility, which encompasses both legal ethics and matters of professionalism that do not present ethical concerns.
		While legal codes of ethics differ from place to place, they tend to have some common statutes governing things like conflicts of interest, incompetence, bribery, coercion, communications with jurors, coaching witnesses, and so on.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/legal_ethics.htm (173 words)

	Legal Ethics Sites
		Legal Ethics Forum (http://legalethicsforum.typepad.com/blog/) -- three law school educators from different parts of the country have joined together to create a terrific weblog featuring constantly-updated materials on issues in legal ethics.
		Legal Ethics Opinion Summaries (http://www.mcguirewoods.com/services/leo/) -- McGuire Woods attorney Tim Spahn has prepared summaries of Virginia and ABA Legal Ethics Opinions, and made them available free of charge.
		Ethics resources on the Internet are somewhat finite; there are not an overabundance of high-quality ethics sites out there right now.
	www.abanet.org /lpm/lpt/articles/slc04051.html (760 words)

	ProEthics professional ethics training and consulting
		This is part of the new continuing legal education seminar, The Sound of Ethics, in which attorneys are challenged with ethical dilemmas presented in song.
		In addition to his legal background and a decade of teaching legal ethics at bar associations, government agencies and law firms across the country, he is also an award winning professional stage director and the Artistic Director of Arlington, Virginia's American Century Theater, a non-profit professional company dedicated to producing neglected American plays and musicals.
		Other Continuing Legal Education organizations were watching the premiere of the first musical legal ethics seminar to see how it was received, and were impressed, while the lawyers in attendance left glowing evaluations.
	www.proethics.com /soe.html (771 words)

	LII: American Legal Ethics Library
		Major law firms and legal academics, working on a pro bono basis, are contributing narratives on the law of lawyering of their states.
		The American Bar Association's ethics materials are included in the library to permit the rules of a particular state to be compared with the ABA model provisions, including the extensive 2002 revisions, and with related provisions in other states.
		The narratives and primary material that comprise the core American Legal Ethics Library have been structured to function as an integrated collection.
	www.law.cornell.edu /ethics (378 words)

	Legal Ethics in Cyberspace
		Since legal ethics rules vary by jurisdiction, it is not possible to generalize with complete confidence about what requirements now exist.
		First, since she did not know what a sig file was, I had to explain that it is several lines of text added by posting or e-mail software at the end of the post that identifies the person doing the posting.
		I asked a bar ethics lawyer this question and she said she thought they were not included.
	www.usual.com /article9.htm (2511 words)

	LEGAL ETHICS - Selected Resources at the Cornell Law Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute is the source of the American Legal Ethics Library, which provides the codes or rules that set standards for the professional conduct of lawyers and commentary on the law governing lawyers.
		Opinions of the Committee on Professional Ethics and Grievances, with the Canons of Professional Ethics, annotated, and the Canons of Judicial Ethics, annotated.
		Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute is the source of the American Legal Ethics Library, which provides access to the state codes or rules that set standards for the professional conduct of lawyers and commentary on the law governing lawyers.
	www.lawschool.cornell.edu /lawlibrary/guides/ethics/ethics.htm (2688 words)

	Legal Ethics: San Diego County Bar Association
		Legal Ethics Quarterly is an electronic newsletter written by members of the Bar’s Legal Ethics Committee.
		The following links to the Formal Legal Ethics Opinions of the San Diego County Bar Association are advisory opinions regarding the ethical propriety of hypothetical attorney conduct.
		These opinions are issued by the Legal Ethics Committee of the SDCBA.
	www.sdcba.org /ethics/ethicsopinons_toc.html (4341 words)

	Expert Witness, Legal Malpractice, Legal Ethics, Attorney Fee Disputes, Attorney Negligence, Seminars: Bucklin
		An attorney may be charged with legal negligence or a breach of professional ethics in the handling of their client’s case or transaction.
		or as an expert witness in legal fees awards or in disputes on whether a reasonable attorney fee bill or billing practice in a case or transaction is reasonable.
		We can provide a one hour or day seminar on how to properly present reasonable legal fees to a judge or jury, disputing legal fee bills, presenting the evidence in attorney fee disputes, or how to defend against fees which are improperly large.
	www.bucklin.org (1081 words)

	Research Guides - Legal Ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		When researching issues of legal ethics, you will need to consult sources beyond the familiar cases and statutes, such as codes of professional ethics and ethics opinions issued by state and national bar associations.
		The ABA and the bar associations of each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia publish ethics opinions in response to requests for advice from lawyers.
		Current ethics opinions are in the binders in Reference Looseleaf; older ethics opinions are in annual bound volumes on the Fifth Floor.
	www.ll.georgetown.edu /lib/guides/legal_ethics.html (3032 words)

	Legal Ethics Opinions (LEOs)
		A member of the bar may request a LEO by completing the "Legal Ethics Opinion Request Form," which is available for downloadfrom this Web site,* or you can contact Michelle Townsend at (804) 775-0557 or townsend@vsb.org and arrange to have the form faxed or mailed to you.
		A legal ethics opinion applies ethics rules to a hypothetical set of facts and states whether the activity or conduct complies with or violates such ethics rules.
		Legal Ethics Opinions and Unauthorized Practice of Law Opinions are published in two separate unnumbered volumes of the Michie Code of Virginia (1991 and 1996 added volumes) and are supplemented annually with a pocket part.
	www.vsb.org /profguides/opinions.html (580 words)

	LLRX -- ResearchWire: A Web of Legal Ethics: Rules of Professional Conduct
		Ethics opinions are just that, opinions of a group of lawyers who serve on a bar association's ethics committee.
		The ethics opinions are particularly helpful since they address many issues which never come before courts in disciplinary cases.
		Again, Legalethics.com (http://www.legalethics.com/states.htm) will be the place to look for links to online state legal ethics opinions, as well as contact information for each state's ethics commission and disciplinary agency.
	www.llrx.com /columns/ethics.htm (1096 words)

	Legal Ethics - UofM Law School
		Opinions of the Committee on Professional Ethics: with the Canons of Professional Ethics, annotated, and Canons of Judicial Ethics.
		Opinions of the Committee on Professional Ethics and Grievances [microform]: with the Canons of Professional Ethics, annotated, and Canons of Judicial Ethics.
		Summaries of recent ABA ethics opinions are available from the ABA (http://www.abanet.org/cpr/ethicopinions.html).
	www.law.umn.edu /library/tools/pathfinders/mnethics.html (1669 words)

	Ben Cowgill on Legal Ethics: A Weblog and Web Portal Devoted to Legal Ethics and the Law Governing Lawyers
		is "a gold mine of electronic sources on legal ethics and law practice issues," according to the Underwood Law Library at Southern Methodist University.
		Contribution of Secularized Legal Education to the Moral Crisis of the Profession”, who will speak on the subject of "secularized legal education and professional moral crisis" beginning at 2:00pm ET (11:00 am PT).
		It appears that my Legal Ethics Blog brought this problem to a head because it was the first law-related blog launched by a Kentucky lawyer -- or at least the first that came to the attention of the Attorneys' Advertising Commission.
	cowgill.blogs.com /legalethics (4003 words)

	LEGAL ETHICS
		Gifts from Client: A lawyer must not prepare a legal instrument in which the client gives the lawyer (or family member of lawyer) a substantial gift (including gift by will), except where the client is a relative of the lawyer.
		The court ordered the notes disclosed because, although the personnel were witnesses to the acts alleged to be negligent, their own acts were not alleged to be negligent.
		fail to disclose to the tribunal legal authority in the controlling jurisdiction known to the lawyer to be directly adverse to the position of the client and not disclosed by opposing counsel; or
	currentstudents.law.miami.edu /outlines/ethics.html (16209 words)

	Hofstra University School of Law Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics
		Hofstra's Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics (ISLE) serves as a research center for the study of legal ethics issues.
		Hofstra's first bi-annual conference on legal ethics featured Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as keynote speaker, with presentations by many nationally recognized authorities on legal ethics and practicing lawyers who concentrate in the field.
		As stated in the Journal of the Legal profession, " It is no exaggeration to say that Monroe Freedman's thinking, writing and lectures have been the primary creative force in legal ethics today".
	www.hofstra.edu /Academics/Law/law_ethics.cfm (643 words)

	Legal Ethics Forum
		California, home to about 200,000 practicing lawyers, has undertaken a revision of its legal ethics rules and the Commission appointed to oversee the task is always seeking public comment.
		The legal community has heard rumors for many months (or is it several years?) that the feds are investigating the well-known plaintiffs firm Milberg Weiss and a firm that split off from it.
		That is why section (d)(4)(1) is in the statute—it recognizes the economic (though not legal) connection between an interest in a fund and the performance of firms whose securities a fund holds.
	www.legalethicsforum.com (13288 words)

	LegalEthics.com: The Intersection of Ethics and the Law
		Adopting the position that, for purposes of access to discovery materials during litigation, a patent attorney or agent is not engaged in "competitive decision making" and so, without more, may have access to proprietary materials from the opposing party.
		The Task Force is soliciting comments, and intends to present the revised version of the standards in August 2004 to the ABA House of Delegates.
		The State's Special Committee for the Evaluation of the Rules of Professional Conduct ("Ethics 2003 Committee") proposed formal opinion is available online as is the SEC's July 23rd response.
	www.legalethics.com (1634 words)

	Legal Ethics \| Moral Law Practices \| Legal Morality \| Questia.com Online Library
		LEGAL ETHICS AND LEGAL PRACTICE: Contemporary Issues Legal Ethics and Legal Practice: Contemporary Issues...Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Legal ethics and legal...
		Legal ethics -- Social aspects -- United States...ix CHAPTER ONE -- Legal Ethics After Babel 1 The Law on Lawyers 5 Legal Ethics as Ethics 8...
		Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics
	www.questia.com /library/law/legal-theory/legal-ethics.jsp (504 words)

	Legal Research Guide: Legal Ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Cornell Legal Information Institute maintains a digital library containing the state codes or rules setting standards for the professional conduct of lawyers.
		Some topics of discussion include substance abuse at law school, contingency fees, legal meanings versus common or everyday language and the public's perception of class action lawsuits.
		McGuireWoods LLP lawyer Thomas E. Spahn offers summaries of legal ethics opinions by the Virginia State Bar and the American Bar Association (ABA).
	www.virtualchase.com /resources/ethics.shtml (699 words)

	Legal Ethics in Virginia: James McCauley's Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Legal Ethics and Professional Regulation of Lawyers in Virginia
		Legal advice, as contrasted with legal information, is given whenever a person attempts to apply legal skills, judgment and knowledge to provide a solution to another's particular legal problem.
		I cannot vouch for the legal sufficiency of these forms nor represent that they will suit your needs or be adequate under the laws of your state.
	members.aol.com /jmccauesq/ethics (1501 words)

	Ethics Seminar Legal Education for Corporations and Lawyers
		Legal ethics compliance training and trial technique lectures and workshop seminars have a purpose and a value.
		Our continuing legal education seminar goals are to give litigation attorneys additional skills in depositions and trials, to prevent and reduce risks and exposure, and to promote high ethical and litigation performance.
		No copying or distribution of this material may be made without the express written consent of the copyright holder.
	www.bucklin.org /Seminars_education.htm (503 words)

	Ben Cowgill on Legal Ethics: 'Kentucky advertising rules draw criticism'
		Legal Ethics Forum (Professors John Dzienkowski, John Steele and Brad Wendel)
		I would have liked to spend the time posting news and commentary about the field of legal ethics; after all, that is the raison d’être of this blog.
		brett on 06.08.05 at 1:08 PM I've been thinking, and talking, about the unknown ethics implications of blogs for some time now and waiting for a state to present its point of view.
	cowgill.blogs.com /legalethics/2005/06/im_back.html (2789 words)

	Encyclopedia: Legal ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In many places, lawyers are bound by an ethical code that is enforced by self-governing bar associations, which have the authority to disbar members who engage in unethical professional behavior.
		Some philosophers, e.g., Michael Berumen, would argue that a lawyer's most important ethical obligation as a professional is his fiduciary duty, which arises out of his relationship to others and their having a reasonable basis of trust in him.
		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Legal-ethics (171 words)

	Law Offices of Warnken, LLC, lawyers in Baltimore, MD, Maryland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Professor Byron L. Warnken rendered a written legal opinion for an attorney client on whether that attorney could retain, as his attorney, when sued for malpractice for conduct relating back 15 years, an attorney with whom he was a law partner more than a decade earlier (2001).
		Professor Byron L. Warnken rendered a written or oral legal opinion on conflict of interest, attorney's fess, and legal malpractice (1993-2001).
		Professor Byron L. Warnken was retained as an expert witness on (1) the scope of the privilege against compelled self-incrimination, (2) whether an attorney's legal advice was in defiance of the Supreme Court decision in that case, and (3) if so, whether the attorney should be removed from the case (1992).
	preview.pdesigner.com /warnken/legal_ethics.jsp (357 words)

	Legal Profession
		LEGALETHICS-L@lawlib.wuacc.edu (Legal Ethics list; in partnership with the Science/Technology Section Law and Ethics on the Net of the American Bar Association and the Catholic University School of Law).
		The legal profession is the concern not only of regulators such as bar associations, legislatures, and courts, but also of moral and political philosophers, sociologists, historians, and novelists.
		The best scholarship on the theory of the legal profession attempts to explain how the values presupposed by our legal institutions can be squared with ethics, broadly speaking.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /sg_prof.htm (1035 words)

	Legal Ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		About LE The full text of Legal Ethics is available online
		Legal Ethics is an international and interdisciplinary journal devoted to the field of legal ethics.
		The journal is intended to provide an intellectual meeting ground for academic lawyers, practitioners and policy-makers to debate developments shaping the ethics of law and its practice at the micro and macro levels.
	www.hartjournals.co.uk /le (59 words)

	Legal Ethics: How to Know Right from Wrong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		At the end of this module, you will be equipped to make basic ethical decisions on legal maters involving criminality, forgiveness, blaming and deterrence.
		One short way to define ethics is to call it the study of right and wrong.
		Ethics seeks answers to questions like "Is it OK to break some laws?"
	www.learnwell.org /eth4.shtml (276 words)

	Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism
		The Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism is a 501(c)(3) public foundation organized for the purposes of promoting and enhancing ethics, professionalism and civility among the state's lawyers.
		It is a learning center, a resource center, and a mobilization center for the lawyers and people of Texas.
		The Texas Center for Legal Ethics is proud to announce its newest Membership Benefit.
	www.txethics.org (255 words)

	FindLaw: Legal Subjects: Ethics and Professional Responsibility: Publications - Journals, Newsletters and Articles
		Employment of Legal Professionals with Disabilities and Chronic Medical Conditions From the State Bar of California, Standing Committee on Legal Professionals with Disabilities.
		Ethics Addresses moral, political and philosophical issues related to the law.
		Minority Professors and Legal Education Articles on the experience of the minority professor in seeking tenure and the standards used to judge their work and qualifications.
	www.findlaw.com /01topics/14ethics/publications.html (811 words)

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