The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

This report contains the findings and recommendations of the Task Force on the Quality of Justice, Subcommittee on Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Judicial System concerning the following: 1) the effects of alternative dispute resolution on courts, litigants and the public; 2) what state entity should have the authority to adopt ethical standards governing retired judges, attorneys, and/or non-attorneys acting as arbitrators or mediators and what ethical standards should be adopted; and 3) whether the standards governing the referral of disputes by courts to private judges or attorneys be should changed.