Rules

• ABA/BNA Lawyers Manual on Professional Conduct
  The manual contains the model rules and standards.

• ABA Compendium of Professional Responsibility Rules and Standards
  The essential legal ethics materials needed by lawyers and judges in their daily practice, law students in their exploration of the standards of their new profession, and legal scholars in their analysis of the changing currents that influence professional regulation (description from ABA Web site).

• Annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct, ABA
  Contains full text of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct as adopted on August 2, 1983, including a comparison of the Model Rules to the former ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility.

• Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest
  Volume labeled "A.B.A Codes" on the spine.

• CITATOR: Use Shepard's Professional and Judicial Conduct Citations to shepardize ethics opinions, the Code of Professional Responsibility, the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the Code of Judicial Conduct.

• A Legislative History: the Development of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, 1982-1998 , ABA, 1999.

• The Legislative History of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, ABA, 1987.

• Model Rules of Professional Conduct: proposed final draft, May 30, 1981, ABA.

• Model Rules of Professional Conduct: alternative draft, code of professional responsibility format, May 30, 1981, ABA.

The ABA's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility periodically publishes formal and informal opinions. They are located in the reference room. Formal Opinion: a subject of general interest to the bar. Informal Opinion: a response to a specific inquiry relating to a particular set of facts.

• Recent Ethics Opinions
  Contains current formal and informal opinions and a subject index. Updated.

• Formal and Informal Ethics Opinions, ABA, 2000.
  Contains Formal opinions, Nos. 349-412, Informal opinions, Nos. 1496-1530.

• Formal and Informal Ethics Opinions, ABA, 1985.
  Contains Formal opinions, Nos. 316-348, Informal opinions, Nos. 1285-1495.

• Informal Ethics Opinions, ABA, 1975.
  Vol. 1: Informal opinions, Nos. C230(a)-866; Vol. 2: Informal opinions, Nos. 867-1284.

• Opinions of the Committee on Professional Ethics, ABA, 1967.
  Contains full text of formal opinions, Nos. 1-315.