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Bibliography of Ethics Resources

Michigan Ethics Opinions, annual supplements, State Bar of Michigan, 1988-1996.

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.

Professional Liability Reporter, Clark Boardman Callaghan, Inc.

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.

The Bar Examiner, National Conference of Bar Examiners, Chicago IL.

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 Model Rules of Professional Conduct (1983).

ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility (1969).

ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct; Bureau of National Affairs, 1231 25th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20037.

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.

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).

Internet Sources. The following World Wide Web sites contain state ethics rules and opinions or links to state bar sites that have ethics rules and opinions: FindLaw http://www.findlaw.com; Internet Legal Services http://legalethics.com; Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics.

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.

Lawyers’ Liability Review; www.versuslaw.com.

Professional Liability Reporter; www.westgroup.com.

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).

Mortgage Loan Opinion Report, by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Committee on Real Property Law, Subcommittee on Mortgage Loan Opinions, and the New York State Bar Association, Real Property Law Section, Attorney Opinion Letters Committee, 54 Business Lawyer 119 (1998).

M. John Sterba, Jr., Drafting Legal Opinion Letters (2d ed. 1992); www.aspenpublishers.com.

Scott Fitzgibbon and Donald W. Glazer, Fitzgibbon and Glazer on Legal Opinions (1992); www.aspenpublishers.com.


Notice to Lawyers:
State Bar of Michigan ethics opinions are advisory and non-binding in nature. This index is a complete historical catalog. Some of the listed ethics opinions, though not expressly superseded in subsequent ethics opinions, may be nonetheless outmoded or no longer sound due to subsequent changes in case law, statutes, or court rules. Practitioners are urged to thoroughly research all sources to determine the current validity of any given ethics opinion.