Lawyer and Judicial Ethics: Iowa Practice
LAWYER AND JUDICIAL ETHICS: IOWA PRACTICE, Thomson-West Publishers, 2007 Edition
Posted: 19 Sep 2007
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
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