Legal Ethics
Rules And Opinions
- ABA Center for Professional Responsibility
Site features headnote summaries of recent ABA Ethics Opinions, the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, and ETHICSearch Research Service. - American Legal Ethics Library
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School Contains the rules setting standards for the professional conduct of lawyers as well as commentary on the law governing lawyers, organized on a state by state basis. - Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Rules Page
Contains links to the PA Rules of Professional Conduct, the Ethics 2000 Amendments, the PA Continuing Legal Education rules, and more. - Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School Provides access to both the version of the Model Rules adopted by the ABA in February 5, 2002, in response to the recommendations of the Ethics 2000 Commission (the “Current Version”) and the prior version of the Model Rules (the “Pre-2002” version). Both versions link to one another. - palawlibrary.com
Subscription site containing Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania unreported and reported opinions and current Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct. Site offers a 14-day trial. - Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct
The rules can be found in Title 204, Chapter 81 of the Pennsylvania Code. - Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission
Provides access to rulings, advices and opinions from 1979-present. - Philadelphia Bar Association Ethics Opinions
Browse or search the most frequently-requested opinions, from 1987 to present.
General Ethics Information
- Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Attorney Search
Search for licensed Pennsylvania attorneys and gain information about an attorney such as an attorney’s status or whether an attorney has been subjected to public discipline and/or disability. - FindLaw: Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Links to rules, decisions, journals, newsletters, articles and other Web sites. - Legal Ethics Discussion List
Washburn University School of Law Library, Topeka KS Restricted to lawyers, law professors, and law students only. - LegalEthics.com
Ethics information searchable by practice area and topic. - National Organization of Bar Counsel
Nonprofit organization whose members enforce ethical rules. Provides links to summaries of cases on attorney disciplinary matters, a NOBC membership directory, an online forum for NOBC members, and links to other ethics sites.
Metadata
- Appligent Redax
Appligent Document Solutions. Completely removes text and graphics from the PDF file. Hacking the PDF cannot reveal properly redacted information. Requires an existing installation of Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional 6, 7, 8 or 9. - Doc Scrubber
Javacool Software Free metadata scrubber that works with MS Word documents in the classic .DOC format used in Word 97, 2000, XP, 2003. (Does not currently support the new .DOCX format used by Word 2007/2008.) Also allows you to scrub multiple documents at a time. - How to Minimize Metadata in Word 2003
Some metadata in MS Word is generated automatically and is available via File – Properties. Other metadata can be manually added via the Track Changes feature. - iScrub
Esquire Innovations, Inc. Metadata removal and management utility for Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Powerpoint) documents and Adobe Acrobat PDF files. - Metadata – What Is It and What Are My Ethical Duties?
LLRX.com Excellent overview of metadata issues, along with links to relevant ethics opinions and tips for guarding against metadata disasters. - Metadata Assistant
Payne Group Popular metadata scrubber for MS Office documents. - Minimizing Metadata in WordPerfect 12 Documents
16 page white paper that covers the procedures for removing comments, hidden text, document revision annotations, and more. - Remove Hidden Data and Personal Information from MS Office 2007 Documents
Explains how the Document Inspector feature in Microsoft Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007 can help you find and remove hidden data and personal information in your Office documents. - Saving WordPerfect Files Without Metadata
Discusses steps you can take to save WordPerfect documents without hidden data, including version X3’s Save Without Metadata feature. - Workshare Protect
Workshare, Inc. Popular metadata scrubber for MS Office documents.
