Legal Ethics Books

The text of the Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, accompanied by abridged commentary. For use in basic and Advanced American law school courses.

During WWII many paintings met the same tragic fate as so much of the art that was stolen or purchased under duress during the Nazi occupation. Plundered art from that era has a clouded history echoing its former owners’ fate.

This book is intended to establish standards for ethical conduct of judges, provide guidance to judges and candidates for judicial office and provide structure for regulating conduct through disciplinary agencies.

This book is the ABA's definitive resource for information about how courts, disciplinary bodies, and ethics committees apply the lawyer ethics rules. Each chapter begins with the rule and its comment followed by a link to charts comparing each state’s rule with the Model Rule, and then presents a detailed discussion of how the rule has been applied.

This inaugural edition of the Annotated Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions presents an authoritative and practical analysis of the cases and other legal authorities essential to understanding the application of the black letter Standards. This book is a must buy for state supreme courts, lawyer disciplinary counsel, disciplinary adjudicators and lawyers representing other lawyers in the disciplinary process.

This publication provides a concise explanation of the rules and concepts of lawyer professional responsibility and liability in California.

This book is designed to support the expansion in scope of the Professional Responsibility course.

The Handbook has gone through extensive updates the last few years. The 2021 edition was completely reorganized and rewritten, informing the reader of the latest procedures and technologies utilized in a forensic investigation of a crime. This year’s 2026 edition further updated criminal investigative procedures guiding law enforcement officers through each and every element of a criminal investigation making sure nothing is missed, including updates to: (i) Chapter 1: Strategic Investigation process; (ii) Chapter 3: Crime Scene Investigation; (iii) Chapter 12: Forensic Interviewing and Interrogation; (iv) Chapter 13: Computer Forensics; (v) Chapter 19: Investigation of White-Collar Crimes and Organized Crime; and (vi) Chapter 20: Terrorism Investigation and Homeland Security.

This book seeks to help “break the bias habit” by increasing knowledge and awareness of implicit bias, improved understanding and practice of procedural fairness and of culturally competent communication across cultures, and a sustained commitment to mindfulness.

This ethics manual provides practical guidance on lawyers’ professional responsibilities, ethics in specific practice areas, disciplinary matters, and malpractice prevention.