The following links are designed to help direct visitors to the best places on the web to learn about and research legal ethics issues, current events, ethics rules and opinions, bar discipline, and ethics in specialized areas of law.

http://www.abanet.org/cpr provides many outstanding resources regarding professional responsibility, including the annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the ABA Compendium of Professional Responsibility Rules and Standards.

http://www.abanet.org/cpr/ethics2k.html This related site is particularly important now that the Ethics 2000 Commission has finished its draft work and the ABA House of Delegates has completed (with some changes) passage of these proposals. Margaret Colgate Love, a member of the "E2K" Commission, has done an excellent series of clear and concise periodic updates on the status of the major changes to the Model Rules. Updates include a highlighted comparison of changes made by "E2K."

http://www.legalethics.com This site, maintained by cyberethics expert Peter Krakaur, posts a wealth of legal ethics information, including a large library of state ethics opinions, information on Internet ethics and other cyberspace issues, as well as links to other information. This is one of the first sites to explore. www.legalethics.com/ethics.law www.legalethics.com/ethics.law is an excellent place to start an ethics-related search.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics Under the able stewardship of noted ethics professor Roger Cramton, and thanks to a grant from the W.W. Keck Foundation, Cornell's American Legal Ethics Library is perhaps the most complete research library of information on legal ethics.

http://www.ethicsandlawyering.com is perhaps the best site to read about current issues in legal ethics. Site owners William Freivogel and Lucian Pera write periodic newsletters covering current events in a chatty and readable style that is both accurate and informative. Past issues of the newsletter are archived. Bill Freivogel is a former counsel with ALAS, the leading insurance carrier for large law firms, and also maintains an on-line site on conflicts of interest. Lucian Pera is a Memphis trial lawyer and a member of the Ethics 2000 Commission.

http://www.freivogelonconflicts.com is Bill Freivogel's conflicts of interest site-an immensely valuable source for both recent decisions and opinions on legal ethics and a library of conflicts information divided by substantive category.

http://www.nobc.org This site is operated by The National Organization of Bar Counsel, whose members are comprised primarily of bar disciplinary counsel. The site, focused on attorney discipline, provides a useful, broad ethics overview, and posts, discussions, and summaries of new court cases involving attorney discipline. There is also a Listserv forum.

http://www.hricik.com/business.html is a valuable center for information about electronic and Internet, and IP legal ethics issues maintained by David Hricik, a Texas attorney and adjunct law professor.

http://findlaw.com/01topics/14ethics/index.html contains an ethics and Professional Responsibility web guide that provides useful links to court decisions, articles, websites and other sources involving legal ethics.