The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Professional Discipline provided the a checklists and Web links are intended to provide information for solo and small firm practitioners to help avoid the pitfalls that can occur in a busy law practice.

For ethics rules for your jurisdiction and others, you can go to the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s page of state links.

If you have a question about the ethics rules’ application in specific situations, the same page provides links to state ethics opinions and ethics hotlines telephone numbers. Or you can contact the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s ETHICSearch Research Service at 800-285-2221 (option 8); Fax: 312-988-5491 or email: ethicsearch@staff.abanet.org.

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