DSL LegalLinks - Ethics & Professional Responsibility

DSL LegalLinks

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

ABA: Center for Professional Responsibility
http://www.abanet.org/cpr/: Webpage of the American Bar Associations section on professional responsibility, with legal ethics, professional regulations, client protection, the Lawyer’s Manual on Professional Conduct, etc.
American Legal Ethics Library
http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics: Cornell’s Legal Information Institute library of codes and rules of professional responsibility for lawyers. Available by topic or jurisdiction.
Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers
http://www.aprl.net: Professional association of lawyers that provides information on admission to the practice of law, professional ethics, discipline, and professional liability. Newsletter available in .pdf form.
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
http://www.iit.edu/departments/csep/PublicWWW/codes/: From the Illinois Institute of Technology, a collection of codes of ethics from professional societies, corporations, government, and academic institutions.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission
http://www.ethics.state.pa.us/ethics/site/default.asp: Information on the Pennsylvania Public Official and Employee Ethics Act from the Pennsylvania State Ethics Committee.
Court of Judicial Discipline
http://www.cjdpa.org: The Court of Judicial Discipline decides cases and imposes sanctions based on formal charges against a judicial officer. The page includes decisions, rules, and more.
The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
http://www.padisciplinaryboard.org: Information on the Disciplinary Board, including rules, complaint forms, and annual reports.
Ethics & Lawyering.com
http://www.ethicsandlawyering.com: Site of the newsletter Ethics and Lawyering Today. Archived copies available.
Ethical Links
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/links/links.cfm?cat=CENTER: Links from Santa Clara University to hundreds of ethics related sites, which can be divided down into specific areas.
Ethics on the World Wide Web
http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/lester/ethics/ethics_list.html: Links for ethics from the School of Communication at California State University, Fullerton. Divided by subject, such as legal, business, medical, etc.
LegalEthics.com
http://www.legalethics.com/pa/main.html: Articles and information on legal ethics, along with some legal ethics internet research resources.
Professional Ethics
http://law.unl.edu/schmid/weblinks/topics/ethics.html: University of Nebraska College of Law’s links to legal ethics.