Ethics
The complete list of terms and definitions.
Legal ethics is a code of conduct that attorneys are bound by when performing their legal duties. Attorneys must remain in compliance with the Rules of Professional Conduct as part of being licensed to practice law. Violation of any ethics rules could result in a complaint being filed against an attorney and possible disciplinary action by the state bar association. What follows is a list of legal terms commonly-associated with legal ethics, as well as their dictionary definitions.
- Acceptance of Representation
- Access to Evidence
- Accounting for Funds
- Acquiring an Interest in Litigation
- Administration of Justice
- Adversary System
- Advertising
- Advertising Media
- Agreement to Limit Liability
- Ambulance Chasing
- Attorney-Client Privilege
- Bar Admission
- Bar Admission Applicant
- Bribery
- Business Affairs of Lawyer
- Campaign Contributions
- Candidate for Judicial Office
- Candor Toward Tribunal and Disclosure of material Facts
- Certification as Specialist
- Client Security Fund
- Client Trust Account
- Client With Diminished Capacity
- Comments to the Rules
- Commingling Funds
- Communicate With Juror
- Communication With Person Represented by Counsel
- Communications About a Lawyer's Services
- Compensation or Retirement Plan
- Competence
- Competence in Technology
- Concurrent Conflict of Interest
- Conduct Involving Fraud
- Conflict of Interest
- Contingent Fee
- Continuing Legal Education
- Contract of Representation
- Control of Litigation
- Costs Advanced to Client
- Criminal Conduct by Client
- Criminal Conduct by Lawyer
- Dealing With Unrepresented Person
- Declining Representation
- Delivery of Funds or Property
- Destruction of Potential Evidence
- Diligence
- Diminished Capacity of Lawyer
- Discharge by Client
- Disclosure of Client Fraud
- Disclosure to Tribunal
- Disputed Property
- Disruptive Trial Conduct
- Division of Fees
- Duties to Former Clients
- Duty of Confidentiality
- Duty of Partner
- Duty of Prosecutor
- Duty to Disclose Legal Authority
- Duty to Report Judicial Misconduct
- Duty to Report Lawyer Misconduct
- Ex Parte Proceeding
- Expediting Litigation
- Explain Matter to Client
- Extrajudicial Statement
- False Evidence to Tribunal
- Fee in Domestic Relations Case
- Fiduciary Duty
- Financial Assistance to Client
- Flat Fee
- Former Judge, Arbitrator or Mediator
- Fraud by Client
- Frivolous Discovery Request
- Frivolous Representation
- Handling Client's Funds
- Harassment or Discrimination
- Hourly Fees
- Immunity from Civil Liability for Client Protection Fund
- Impartiality of Tribunal
- Informed Consent
- Informing Client of Settlement Offers
- Internet-based Client Leads
- Law Partnership
- Lawyer as Counselor
- Lawyer as Negotiator
- Lawyer as Witness
- Lawyer Diligence
- Lawyer Discrimination
- Lawyer's Personal Interests
- Legal Malpractice
- Lien to Secure Fees
- Maintain Communications With Client
- Malpractice
- Model Rule 8.4 (c)
- Model Rule 8.4 (e)
- Model Rules of Professional Conduct
- Multijurisdictional Practice
- Mutual Referral of Clients
- Nonlawyer Assistants
- Notice of Withdrawal
- Obtaining Evidence
- Officer of the Court
- Other Duty of Bar Applicant
- Partnership With Nonlawyer
- Personal Conscience
- Plea Bargain
- Prepaid Legal Services Plan
- Pro Bono Public Service
- Professional Corporation
- Professional Independence of Lawyer
- Prosecutor's Duty to Disclose
- Prosecutor's Use of Public Statements
- Prospective Client
- Reasonable Fees
- Reduced Fees
- Referral to Other Professionals
- Reporting Lawyer's Professional Misconduct
- Respect for Rights of Third Persons
- Responsibility of Partner or Supervising Lawyer
- Rule 1.12(a)
- Rule 1.16(b)(2)
- Rule 1.16(d)
- Rule 1.18(b)
- Rule 1.6(b)(1)
- Rule 1.6(b)(5)
- Rule 1.8 (c)
- Rule 2.1
- Rule 2.4(a)
- Rule 3.4(a)
- Rule 3.4(b)
- Rule 3.4(d)
- Rule 3.8(a)
- Rule 5.2(a)
- Rule 5.4(b)
- Rule 5.5(b)(2)
- Safekeeping Property
- Sale of Law Practice
- Screened
- Serving as Arbitrator
- Sexual Relations With Client
- Sharing Legal Fees With a Nonlawyer
- Soliciting
- Terminating Representation
- Transactions Between Client and Lawyer
- Trial Publicity
- Trial Tactics
- Unauthorized Practice of Law
- Unjust Expectations of Client
- Withdrawal Due to Incapacity
- Withholding Information From Client
- Zealous Representation
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