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Ethics and Professional Responsibility

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

You can find the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct on Westlaw or Lexis. The best online source for the model rules and related materials is Bloomberg Law's ABA/Bloomberg Law Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct. The Lawyers' Manual includes:

  • Easy access to rules of ethics;
  • Practice guides organized by subject area that include current rules, past rules and other background information, state-specific modifications, analysis, and notes of relevant opinions;
  • Indexes to current reports of ethics opinion and past decisions;
  • Full-text searching of ABA and state ethics opinions; and
  • Links to the states’ Rules of Professional Conduct, as well as analyses of how states have varied from the Model Rules.

To access the Lawyer’s Manual:

  1. Sign in to Bloomberg Law.
    • If you do not have a Bloomberg Law account, please register for your Bloomberg Academic Account. Use this registration link to register your account. Remember to use your university email address to register your academic account.
    • If you have forgotten your username and/or password, use the Forgot Username/Password? link to retrieve your account information.
  2. Use the Menu under the Search Box on the Home page and select Practice Centers.
  3. Next, from the dropdown menu select Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility.
  4. This collection of legal ethics news, ABA ethics opinions, model rules, court opinions, and other titles comprise the Lawyer's Manual. 

Indiana Rules

Indiana's Rules of Professional Conduct are very similar to the Model Rules, but not exactly the same. You can get Indiana's rules here from the state judiciary's website. You can also use Bloomberg Law to find Indiana's rules and those of the other 49 states in the ABA/Bloomberg Law Lawyer's Manual on Professional Conduct using the US map:

The ABA has comparison charts that help you discover how state rules vary from the model rules. 

Indiana's Rules of Professional Conduct are codified in the Indiana Code, Title 34 Court Rules (Civil). Access the Indiana Code on Westlaw or Lexis.

In Print

If your looking for a comprehensive print resource for ethics rules, try Professional Responsibility Standards, Rules, & Statutes, John S. Dzienkowski, KF 305 .A29 S45, available in the Law Library's 1st Floor collection.

Judicial Conduct