Starting Points

Web-Based Legal Ethics Research

by Kerry Fitz-Gerald

Primary Legal Ethics Materials for Washington State

Rules of Professional Conduct
www.courts.wa.gov/court_rules/?fa=court_rules.list&group=ga&set=RPC

Rules for Enforcement of Lawyer Conduct
www.courts.wa.gov/court_rules/?fa=court_rules.list&group=ga&set=ELC

WSBA Formal Opinions (Browseable)
www.wsba.org/lawyers/ethics/formalopinions/default1.htm

WSBA Formal and Informal Opinions (Searchable)
http://pro.wsba.org/io/search.asp

Disciplinary Notices Search Page
http://pro.wsba.org/PublicDisciplineSearch.asp

Code of Judicial Conduct
www.courts.wa.gov/court_rules/?fa=court_rules.list&group=ga&set=CJC

Discipline Rules for Judges
www.courts.wa.gov/court_rules/?fa=court_rules.list&group=ga&set=DRJ

Commission on Judicial Conduct—Rules of Procedure
www.cjc.state.wa.us/Gov_provision/cjcrp.htm

Commission on Judicial Conduct—Public Actions
www.cjc.state.wa.us/CJC_Activity/public_actions.htm

Judicial Ethics Opinions
www.courts.wa.gov/programs_orgs/pos_ethics/

Ethics in Public Service Act
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=42.52

Legislative Ethics Board (Includes formal, advisory, and complaint opinions)
www1.leg.wa.gov/leb/

Washington Executive Ethics Board Advisory Opinions
http://ethics.wa.gov/index_adv_opinions.html

Multi-State or Subject-based Legal Ethics Research

ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct
www.abanet.org/cpr/mrpc/model_rules.html

ABA Net—The Center for Professional Responsibility
www.abanet.org/cpr/

American Judicature Society
www.ajs.org

Ethics 2000—The ABA Commission on the Evaluation of the Rules of Professional Conduct
www.abanet.org/cpr/e2k/home.html

FindLaw Ethics and Professional Responsibility Page
www.findlaw.com/01topics/14ethics/index.html

Freivogel on Conflicts
www.freivogelonconflicts.com

Hricik.com—Links to Ethics Rules and Opinions
www.hricik.com/StateEthics.html

LLI—Legal Information Institute, American Legal Ethics Library (Cornell)
www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/

Zimmerman’s Research Guide to Legal Ethics
www.lexisnexis.com/infopro/zimmerman/disp.aspx?z=1623

LLRX.com—Research Wire A Web of Legal Ethics: Rules of Professional Conduct
www.llrx.com/columns/ethics.htm

Google
www.google.com