Best Practices

• Preamble
• Client-Lawyer Relationship
• Counselor
• Advocate
• Transactions with Persons Other than Clients
• Law Firms and Associations
• Information about Legal Services
• Maintaining the Integrity of the Profession
• ER 1.1 Competence
• ER 1.2 Scope of Representation
• ER 1.3 Diligence
• ER 1.4 Communication
• ER 1.5 Fees
• ER 1.6 Confidentiality of Information
• ERs 1.7 & 1.10 Conflicts of Interest and Screening Tips
• ER 1.8 Conflict of Interest: Current Clients: Specific Rules
• ER 1.9 Duties to Former Clients
• ER 1.11 Special Conflicts of Interest for Former and Current Government Officers and Employees
• ER 1.13 Organization as Client
• ER 1.14 Client with Diminished Capacity
• ER 1.15 Safekeeping Property
• ER 1.16 Declining or Terminating Representation
• ER 1.18 Duties to Prospective Clients
• ER 2.4 Lawyer Serving as Third-Party Neutral
• ER 3.1 Meritorious Claims and Contentions
• ER 3.3 Candor Toward the Tribunal
• ER 3.4 Fairness to Opposing Party and Counsel
• ER 3.5 Impartiality and Decorum of the Tribunal
• ER 3.6 Trial Publicity
• ER 3.7 Lawyer as Witness
• ER 3.8 Special Responsibilities of a Prosecutor
• ER 3.9 Advocate in Nonadjudicative Proceedings
• ER 3.10 Credible and Material Exculpatory Information about a Convicted Person
• ER 4.1 Truthfulness in Statements to Others
• ER 4.2 Communicating with Person Represented by Counsel
• ER 4.4 Respect for Rights of Others
• ER 5.1 Responsibilities of Lawyers Who Have Ownership Interests or are Managers or Supervisors; ER 5.2 Responsibilities of a Subordinate Lawyer; and ER 5.3 Responsibilities Regarding Nonlawyers
• ER 7.1 Communications Concerning a Lawyer's Services and ER 7.3 Solicitation of New Clients
• ER 8.3 Reporting Professional Misconduct