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Professional Responsibility for Lawyers

Historical ABA Rules

ABA Canons of Ethics 1908
ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility
ABA Website. The predecessor to the Model Rules. Adopted 1969. Last amended 1980.
The Legislative history of the Model rules of professional conduct : their development in the ABA House of Delegates
1987 Book: KF305.A32 A16 1987
A legislative history : the development of the ABA model rules of professional conduct, 1982-1998
Book KF306 .L45 1999
A legislative history : the development of the ABA model rules of professional conduct, 1982-2005
Book KF306 .L45 2006
A legislative history : the development of the ABA model rules of professional conduct, 1982-2013
Book KF306 .L45 2013

Historical State Rules

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Alabama State Bar Association
Includes the adopted version of the Alabama Code of Ethics 1887

Search State Codes to find the Code of Ethics for each state. Lexis and Westlaw contain codes through the 1990s. Earlier codes can be found on:

HeinOnline – State Statutes a Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
Available on campus and off campus with a UANet ID.Older versions of codified state laws.
Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926 This link opens in a new window
Digital archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more.
LLMC Digital This link opens in a new window
A searchable full-text database of early primary government documents and legal literature.

Books

A century of legal ethics : trial lawyers and the ABA Canons of Professional Ethics
KF305 .C46 2009

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