Annotated Models Rules Of Professional Conduct

Previous editions published : 2003 (5th) and 1992 (2nd).

An essential resource on lawyer ethics, The Annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct is the ABA's definitive single-volume resource for information about how courts, disciplinary bodies, and ethics committees apply the lawyer ethics rule

An essential resource on lawyer ethics--revised and updated: The Annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct is the ABA's definitive single-volume resource for information about how courts, disciplinary bodies, and ethics committees apply the lawyer ethics rules. The Eighth Edition incorporates all of the amendments the ABA has made to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct through February 2015--including the 2012 and 2013 amendments adopting the recommendations of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 relating to advances in technology, global legal practice, outsourcing, and confidentiality in the context of conflicts checks when lawyers change firms. Comprehensive and authoritative: Each chapter begins with the rule and its comment followed by a link to charts comparing each state's rule with the Model Rule [NEW with this edition], and then presents a detailed discussion of how the rule has been applied. The book gives citations to thousands of court cases, ethics opinions, law review articles, and internet resources, as well as treatises, the Restatement (3rd) of the Law Governing Lawyers, and the legislative history of the Model Rules. For all jurisdictions and practice settings: Almost every jurisdiction now bases its ethics rules on the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. And nearly every one has amended its ethics rules in light of the ABA's across-the-board revisions in 2002 and its subsequent amendments relating to confidentiality, corporate representation, and multijurisdictional practice.

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Previous editions published : 2007 (6th) and 1992 (1st).

"Each chapter begins with the rule and its comment, a link to charts comparing each state's rule with the Model Rule, and then presents a detailed discussion of how the rule has been applied. The book gives citations to thousands of court cases, ethics opinions, law review articles, and internet resources, as well as treatises, the Restatement (3rd) of the Law Governing Lawyers, and the legislative history of the Model Rules."--