Legal Ethics: Rules, Statutes, and Comparisons

The 2011 Edition of Legal Ethics: Rules, Statutes, and Comparisons includes the following material:

• The text of the ABA's new rules adopted by the ABA House of Delegates in light of "Ethics 2000" and updated through August 2010 (? ABA Model Rules").
• "red-lined" comparison of the 2002 Model Rules, as updated, to the 1983 Model Rules (which is included for those jurisdictions that are still in transition between the revisions to their own old and new rules), also updated through August 2010
• The "clean" text of the ABA's now-former Model Rules of Professional Conduct, as amended (? ABA Model Rules")
• Substantive comparisons between the 1983 and 2002 (as amended) ABA Model Rules and the California Rules of Professional Conduct and the California State Bar Act, updated to reflect changes through Fall 2010
• The text of the ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility
• The text of the ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility
• The text of relevant California Rules and Statutes current through Fall 2010, including the court rules on multijurisdictional practice effective November 2004, Rule 1-650 (which corresponds to Model Rule 6.5), effective July 2009, and Rule 3-410 (professional liability insurance disclosure rule), effective January 2010
• The Securities and Exchange Commission's Final Standards of Professional Conduct
• The text of the 2004 ABA Model Rule on malpractice insurance disclosure passed in August 2004