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Ethics & Professional Responsibility Resource Guide
This selective guide highlights major print and electronic resources available to Cleveland Marshall Law School students researching issues in Ethics & Professional Responsibility Law. Please contact any of the Research Services librarians during their regularly scheduled hours , or via email to research.services@law.csuohio.edu for help in locating these or other resources to meet your needs. Major Treatises, Looseleaf Services or Practice Guides Searching Scholar and Ohiolink Journal Articles and Current Awareness Services Aggregate Files and Other Web Resources
Ethics & Professional Responsibility law controls and/or guides attorneys and judges conduct. Most states look to either the American Bar Association’s Model Rules or the Code of Professional Responsibility and in whole or in part adopt their own rules for their judges and attorneys.
Ohio Supreme Court Web Site In Ohio, the place of last resort for appealing adverse disciplinary situations (among others) is the Supreme Court. They direct and oversee the Board of Commissioners on Grievances & Discipline. Task Force on Rules of Professional Conduct This is the Ohio Supreme Court's Committee that is charged with revising Ohio's Rules of Professional Conduct. Board of Commissioners on Grievances & Discipline Web Site The Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline of the Ohio Supreme Court consists of 28 members who are appointed to 3 year terms by the Court. The members consist of 17 attorneys, 7 active or retired judges and 4 non-attorney members. The Board conducts hearings, preserves the record, makes findings and recommendations to the Supreme Court in disciplinary cases involving ethical misconduct charges brought against Ohio attorneys and judges. These cases include formal charges of misconduct alleged to have been committed by a judge, an attorney, a person under suspension from the practice of law or currently on probation. The Board also hears cases concerning the mental illness of any judge or attorney and hears petitions for reinstatement to the practice of law filed by suspended attorneys. The Board issues nonbinding advisory opinions on ethical questions. The Board is the appropriate ethics agency for receiving Financial Disclosure Statements filed annually by judges, judicial candidates and other judicial officers. The print version of the above is: Advisory Opinions The Board, Office of Secretary, 1987- KFO76.5.A2 S96 Ohio Ethics Commission Web Site Another Ohio source for ethics information, the Ohio Ethics Commission promotes ethics in public service to strengthen the public's confidence that Government business is conducted with impartiality and integrity. The Commission has jurisdiction over Ohio's public officials and employees at the state and local levels of government, except legislators, judges, and their staffs. The Commission issues Advisory Opinions and has since 1974. For the online version of past opinions, see Advisory Opinions Web Site For the print version, see Advisory Opinions The Commission, 1975- KFO406.A8 O54 Model Code of Professional Responsibility, Model Rules of Professional Conduct, and Other Selected Standards Including California Rules on Professional Responsibility Foundation Press, 1985- KF305.A29 M63 National Reporter on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility. University Publications of America, 1991-, KF308.A6 N382 Model Rules for Lawyer Disciplinary Enforcement / American Bar Association Standing Committee on Professional Discipline The Association, 1989 KF308.Z9 A95 1989
Major Treatises, Looseleaf Services or Practice Guides The Law of Professional Responsibility in Ohio by Jack A. Guttenberg and Lloyd B. Snyder. Anderson Pub. Co., 1992 KFO76.5.A2 G97 1992 Lexis Conflicts of Interest / Eugene P. Whetzel, Albert L. Bell. Ohio State Bar Association, 1996 KFO76.5.A2 W48 1996 Modern Legal Ethics, Hornbook Series / by Charles W. Wolfram West Pub. Co., c1986 Modern Legal Ethics / by Charles W. Wolfram. West Pub. Co., 1986 Practitioner's edition, KF306.W59 1986 ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct. American Bar Association, Bureau of National Affairs, 1984-, KF305.A8 A116 ABA Compendium of Professional Responsibility Rules and Standards. Chicago, Ill. : Center for Professional Responsibility, American Bar Association, 1997- KF305.A2
Ohio State Bar Association Website (Most of this topic material requires membership) The Ohio State Bar Association, founded in 1880, is a voluntary professional association open to any person who has been admitted to the practice of law. Law school students are eligible for free membership in the OSBA as associate members. For information regarding Attorney Discipline click here. American Bar Association Website (Most of this topic material requires membership) The largest voluntary professional association in the world, the ABA provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public. The ABA offers student memberships for $20 annual dues. Membership includes many helpful benefits. For information regarding the ABA's Center for Professional Responsibility click here. Cuyahoga County Bar Association Members of the Cuyahoga County Bar Association are attorneys, judges, law students, paralegals, employees of government agencies, and other legal professionals working in Cuyahoga County, Ohio and the surrounding regions. The Cuyahoga County Bar Association offers free student memberships . Membership includes many helpful benefits. For specific information related to grievances and/or fee disputes, click here. Cleveland Bar Association The mission of the Cleveland Bar Association is to serve as a center for legal professionalism in the region by educating the bar, by providing resources that enhance client service, and by promoting integrity and ethical behavior among lawyers; to improve the administration of justice on behalf of the public and the Cleveland legal community; to improve public understanding of the law and the justice system; and to foster an environment in which a diverse Association membership can experience excellence and fulfillment in the practice of law and service to the public. The Cleveland Bar Association offers free law student memberships. For a student membership application form, click here.
Searching Scholar and Ohiolink ( Scholar hands-on instruction ) Search the main subject headings Legal Ethics; Legal Ethics--Ohio; Legal Ethics--United States; Lawyers--Discipline; Lawyers--Disbarment, disqualification, etc.; and Professional Ethics in SCHOLAR and OhioLINK catalogs.
Journal Articles and Current Awareness ServicesSee Finding Articles in Law Reviews, Journals and Other Legal Periodicals for an explanation of the legal periodical indexes and databases available to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law students and the CSU community. Selected journals or current awareness materials in Ethics & Professional Responsibility Law include: Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics / Washington, D.C. : Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, 1987 - . K 7 .E5733 Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics / Hempstead, N.Y.: Hofstra University, School of Law, 1996. KF 300 .A1 J6 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy / Thomas J. White Center on Law & Government, 1984 - . K 14 .O8 Professional Lawyer : PL / Special Coordinating Committee on Professionalism, American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility / Chicago, IL : The Committee, 1989 - . KF 300 P76 Symposium Issue of The Professional Lawyer : selected papers from the ... National Conference on Professional Responsibility & ... National Forum on Client Protection Funds Chicago, Ill. : American Bar Association, Center for Professional Responsibility, 1994 - .
Understanding Lawyers' Ethics, 3rd ed. / Monroe H. Freedman, Abbe Smith / Lexis-Nexis, 2004 KF 306 .F76 2004 Professional Responsibility in a Nutshell, 2nd ed. / Robert H. Aronson and Donald T. Weckstein /West Pub. Co., 1991. KF 306 .Z9 A76 1991 Legal Ethics in a Nutshell / Ronald D. Rotunda, Michael I. Krauss / Thomson/West, 2003. KF 306 .Z9 R688 2003 Professional Responsibility, 7th ed. / Ronald D. Rotunda / Thomson/West, 2004. KF 306 .Z9 R67 2004 Siegel's professional responsibility : essay and multiple-choice questions and answers, 2d ed. / Brian N. Siegel, Lazar Emanuel and Marsha C. Brilliant / New York, NY : Aspen Law & Business, 2000. KF 306 .Z9 S53 2000
Aggregate Files and Other Web ResourcesWestlaw: Topical Materials by Area of Practice - Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility Searchable databases include state and Federal cases relating to civil actions for contract violations; law reviews, texts, bar journals and legal-practice oriented periodicals relating to contract issues; forms, treatises and other practice materials related to contract law; as well as Federal and Uniform Laws (UCC). LexisNexis - Area of Law by Topic - Ethics Searchable databases include federal and state contracts cases, court rules, statutes and legislative materials, administrative materials and regulations, legal reference materials, Model ADR practices and procedures, law reviews and journals, treatises and analytical materials, legal and general news. Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute: Law About...Ethics Findlaw: Ethics & Professional Responsibility Jurist: Legal Research: Law Guides: Legal Profession National Conference of Bar Examiners: Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam
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