Lawyer and Judicial Ethics: Iowa Practice

LAWYER AND JUDICIAL ETHICS: IOWA PRACTICE, Thomson-West Publishers, 2007 Edition

U of St. Thomas Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-29

Posted: 19 Sep 2007

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Gregory C. Sisk

University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota)

Mark S. Cady

Iowa Supreme Court

Abstract

On July 1, 2005, the Iowa Supreme Court adopted the Iowa Rules of Professional Conduct. Iowa's new rules closely follow the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, including the changes made during and following the Ethics 2000 revisions. By this action, the Iowa Supreme Court took the last step in a multi-year transition from the old Code of Professional Responsibility format to a new set of ethics rules in the framework of American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Although the court long-since had informed the bar of the impending change and thus provided ample notice of what was to come, Iowa practitioners nonetheless will take some time to become fully familiar with each of the changes that have accompanied this transition. Accordingly, this is a most propitious time for a treatise on legal ethics in the State of Iowa.

This treatise is divided into five major parts: (1) the relationship between ethics rules, morality, and character; (2) the regulation of lawyers and legal practice, (3) the Iowa Rules of Professional Conduct, (4) legal malpractice in Iowa, and (5) judicial ethics in Iowa.

Keywords: Professional responsibility, legal ethics

Suggested Citation

Sisk, Gregory C. and Cady, Mark S., Lawyer and Judicial Ethics: Iowa Practice. LAWYER AND JUDICIAL ETHICS: IOWA PRACTICE, Thomson-West Publishers, 2007 Edition, U of St. Thomas Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-29, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1015389

Gregory C. Sisk (Contact Author)

University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota) ( email )

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Mark S. Cady

Iowa Supreme Court ( email )

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