Given the American Bar Association's vast size and influence in the legal profession, its call this week for the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a judicial ethics code is expected to draw plenty of notice ...

Judges need to brush up on their ethics after the ABA released its final draft of its revisions to the Model Code of Judicial Conduct on Dec. 21. The commission in charge of the code is accepting ...

The move comes as public confidence in the court is declining Supreme Court justices are not subject to the code of conduct for all other federal judges (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court should adopt ...

The two main resources for ethics research are ethics rules and ethics opinions. The American Bar Association and state and local bar associations have written or adopted rules of ethics by which ...

A model code of conduct for state and local judges spells out, for the first time, that they are to avoid "sexual advances, requests for sexual favors" and other such unwelcome behavior. Ethics and ...

Backers of the new professional misconduct code adopted by the American Bar Association say it's an overdue step to combat discrimination and bias in the legal profession. But controversy around the ...

The near-sacred duty of attorneys to guard their clients’ secrets became less absolute Tuesday when the American Bar Assn. changed its ethics code to allow lawyers to report wrongdoing to corporate ...