News

latest professional and legal news (Law.com) latest ABA news releases (American Bar Association)

Books

Legal Profession bibliography (W. Bradley Wendel, Washington and Lee University School of Law) latest titles on lawyers, the legal profession and legal ethics (Barnes & Noble) books on lawyers and legal ethics (catalog of the Biddle Law Library, University of Pennsylvania)

Law Reviews/Journals

Ethics Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics Journal of the Legal Profession Legal Ethics ABA Journal Court Review

Resource Pages

Dispute Resolution Resources (Margaret Taylor, Wake Forest University School of Law) Famous American Trials (Douglas Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law) Picturing Justice [portrayals of law and lawyering in film and TV] (John Denvir, University of San Francisco School of Law) Practical Moral Philsosphy for Lawyers (James Elkins, West Virginia University College of Law) Workways [the mental processes of lawyering] (Peggy Davis, New York University School of Law)

Course Pages

Law and Literature Timothy Hall, University of Mississippi School of Law (Spring, 2002) Lawyers and Film James Elkins, West Virginia University (Fall, 1999) Lawyers and Literature James Elkins, West Virginia University College of Law (n.d.) Legal Ethics Greg Coorper and Bradley Wendel, Washington & Lee University Law School (2002) Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Gregory Sisk, Drake University Law School (Spring, 2002) The Legal Profession Dane s. Ciolino, Loyola University New Orleans School of Law (Spring, 2001) New Forms of Public Advocacy Charles Sabel, Columbia Law School (Fall, 2001) Practical Moral Philosophy for Lawyers James R. Elkins, West Virginia University (Spring, 1999) Professional Responsibility Roy Sobelson, Georgia State University College of Law (Summer, 2000) Professional Responsibility Ellen Suni, University of Missouri-Kansas City (Winter, 2002) Professional Responsibility Bradley Wendel, Washington & Lee University Law School (Spring, 2002) Professional Responsibility Barbara Glesner-Fines, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law (Fall, 2001) Professional Responsibility Marilyn Yarbrough University of North Carolina School of Law (Spring, 2002) For more listings of course pages, please visit the Course Page

Legislation

Code of Conduct for United States Judges (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

Cases

recent ABA Ethics Opinions (ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility)

Associations

AALS Section on Professional Responsibility ABA General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section ABA Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division American Bar Association American Judges Association American Judicature Society National Bar Association National Lawyers Association National Organization of Bar Counsel

E-mail Lists

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Best of the Web

ABA Center for Professional Responsibility American Legal Ethics Library (Cornell Legal Information Institute) Freivogel on Conflicts Legalethics.com National Action Plan on Lawyer Conduct and Professionalism (Conference of Chief Justices) Professional Responsibility: An Overview (Cornell Legal Information Institute) Professional Responsibility Resources (FindLaw) State Bar Associations and Ethics Rules (FindLaw)

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From the Editor... Welcome to JURIST's Guide to the Legal Profession.

The legal profession is Note: These search results will take you to external sites the contents of which have not the concern not only of regulators such as bar been reviewed by JURIST. associations, legislatures, and courts, but also of moral and political philosophers, sociologists, historians, Bookmark JURIST | Link to JURIST | Recommend JURIST and novelists. The profession is governed by its own disciplinary rules, frequently referred to as "codes of ethics" (an JURIST: The Legal Education Network is directed by Professor Bernard J. Hibbitts, University of unfortunate label, in my Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, in consultation with an international Advisory Board. E-mail: JURIST-at-law-dot-pitt-dot-edu. view, because it equates Bernard J. Hibbitts, 2004. All rights reserved. These pages may not be copied, reposted, or republished, in whole or in part, electronically or in print, without express written permission. This is not an the resolution of moral questions with following official site of the University of Pittsburgh; the University of Pittsburgh is not responsible for content of, or links from, this site. the rules). Courts may NOTICE: JURIST regrets that it cannot provide legal advice. For assistance with specific legal problems, defer to the organized bar please consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction. understanding of its rights and obligations, or they may impose additional or even conflicting duties on lawyers. The complexity of the law applicable to lawyers is reflected in the ALI Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, soon to be promulgated in final form. Critics ask whether the norms expressed in the law of lawyering are contrary to ordinary moral values or to personal commitments such as religious beliefs. Some recurring dilemmas, such as the conflict between the obligation to keep confidences and the ordinary moral duty to disclose information that could prevent harm to third parties, may pit

legal ethics against personal ethics. On the other hand, the duties of lawyers may be consonant with a particular understanding of ordinary morality. The best scholarship on the theory of the legal profession attempts to explain how the values presupposed by our legal institutions can be squared with ethics, broadly speaking. Suggestions for expanding or correcting this subject guide are welcome. Please contact the editor at wendelb@wlu.edu.
W, Bradley Wendel is Assistant Professor of Law at Washington and Lee