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Center for Professional Responsibility
The Center for Professional Responsibility provides national leadership in developing and interpreting standards and scholarly resources in legal and judicial ethics, professional regulation, professionalism and client protection.
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Fall 2024 National Legal Malpractice Conference
ETHICS 60 min
The premier fall event for legal liability, malpractice, and insurance professionals. Your peers and colleagues from across the nation will gather to explore the transformation of the legal liability…
Sep
24
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2024 National Conference for Lawyer Assistance Programs
AWARENESS 60 min
Mark your calendars and plan to join us for this premier legal event. Attendees, including lawyer and judicial assistance programs professional staff and volunteers, lawyers, clinicians, judges, lega…
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ABA Formal Ethics Opinions apply the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to hypotheticals helping lawyers practice ethically.
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Our Committees
Through its coordinating efforts, the Center for Professional Responsibilty promotes discussion and resolution of pressing issues of professional responsibility and regulation and fosters communication among diverse bar organizations and the various agencies that supervise and regulate the conduct of lawyers and judges.
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The Center for Professional Responsibility administers several awards each year that recognize individuals and entities for their efforts in furthering professional responsibility.
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Lawyers in Transition
The ABA Center for Professional Responsibility has compiled resources to help answer common questions and identify programming and policy innovations related to end-of-career issues confronting lawyers.
Professional Responsibility Law Speakers Bureau
The Professional Responsibility Law Speakers Bureau is a resource from the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility to those organizing conferences, workshops, continuing legal education and similar programming.
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The Center for Professional Responsibility and its entities offer numerous resources relating to ethics, professionalism, client protection, professional discipline, specialization and global initiatives.
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About the Center
The Center for Professional Responsibility advances the public interest by promoting and encouraging high ethical conduct and professionalism by lawyers and judges. The Center provides leadership and guidance to the legal profession and the judiciary by developing, interpreting and promoting the implementation of policies and standards that govern the conduct and regulation of lawyers and judges, including examining the challenges and opportunities of today’s global legal environment, and by producing scholarly and other resources.
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