Guides: Casebooks, Study Aids & Guides for Law School Courses & Bar Exams: Professional Responsibility: New York

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Bloomberg Law > Practice Center: Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility > New York Ethics Resources
See box: State Rules > Search Rules of Professional Conduct.
See box: State Rules > All New York Court Rules.
Also provides digests of recent New York State and local ethics opinions. Supports searching digests of various New York bar associations' ethics opinions.

New York Legal Ethics Opinions
New York Judicial Ethics Opinions (1978-)
New York Public Officials Ethics Opinions (1988-)
Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility Cases
(U.S. federal & state cases regarding "attorney misconduct, discipline, attorney-client, ethics and other related matters.") Click title above. Enter Westlaw username/password

New York City Bar, Ethics Hotline
This site states: "The Ethics Hotline is operated and staffed by members of the Committee on Professional Ethics (the "Committee"). These volunteers respond to inquiries made by lawyers admitted in New York who face ethical questions regarding their own prospective conduct."
New York County Lawyers Association, Ethics Hotline
This site states: "Questions to the hotline are limited to an inquiring attorney’s own conduct under New York’s Rules of Professional Conduct."

Under Practice (show), check: Legal Ethics & Malpractice

Under State (show), check: New York

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