Materials on Legal Ethics in Georgia
www.clarkcunningham.org/GeorgiaLegalEthics.htm

State Bar of Georgia Web Site
---State Bar Handbook
---Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct

-- Formal Advisory Opinions: Indexed by GRPC Number
-- Formal Advisory Opinions: Indexed by Topic
-----Topics A-J
-----Topics J-W
--Advisory Opinions listed Chronologically and by Number


Georgia Supreme Court Order Adopting the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct (June 12, 2000, effective January 1, 2001) (pdf)
Amendments to Rules of Professional Conduct effective June 9, 2004 (Rules 5.4, 7.3)
Amendments to Rules of Professional Conduct effective November 3, 2011 (multiple rules)
- Executive Summary, Office of the General Counsel, State Bar of Georgia
- Redline version of amendments
- Supreme Court Order dated November 3, 2011
Amendment to Rule 5.5 effective December 1, 2012
Order adding new Rule 6.5 and amending Rule 7.5 effective June 12, 2013
Amendment to Rule 7.2 effective March 21, 2014
Amendments to Rule 1.15 effective April 14, 2015 (not yet linked)
Amendments to Rule 1.6, 3.5, 7.3 and 8.4 effective July 9, 2015
Amendment to Rule 5.4 effective February 4, 2016
Amendment to Rule 5.5 effective March 3, 2016
Amendments to Rules 1.7, 4.4, and 5.3 effective November 2, 2016 (not yet linked)
Amendment to Rule 5.5 effective June 15, 2017 (not yet linked)
Amendments to Rules 1.0 and 9.4, order entered January 12, 2018, effective July 1, 2018 (not yet linked)
Rules re Judicial District Professionalism Program deleted, effective September 5, 2019 (not yet linked)


Georgia Code of Professional Responsibility and Disciplinary Standards in effect prior to January 1, 2001 (pdf)

Georgia Disciplinary Procedures: Table of Contents

American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct

American Bar Association Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions

National Conference of Bar Examiners: Multistate Professional Responsiblity Exam (MPRE)

Oversight of Prosecutor Conduct

The Client Relationship and Basics of Legal Ethics (Lawyers for Equal Justice - June 18, 2019)
-- Powerpoint presentation
-- Outline on fees and trust accounting
-- Alternate Fee Agreement
-- Blank Bank Account form

Protecting Privacy (Georgia State College of Law: Towers to Trenches April 28, 2017)

2014 State of the Judiciary Address by the Honorable Chief Justice Hugh P. Thompson (February 5, 2014)

Proposed Changes to Disciplinary Rules to Protect Georgia Citizens (Letter from Professor Clark D. Cunningham to State Bar Committee on Disciplinary Rules and Procedures December 11, 2013)

Conduct of Assistant District Attorney Demone Lee (Letter from Professor Clark D. Cunningham to State Disciplinary Board December 10, 2013)
-- more information about Demone Lee case

Investigations of City of Atlanta Corruption and Violations of the Georgia Open Records Act

Attorney General's Conduct on Ethics Commission Matters (Governor Nathan Deal case)
- July 23, 2014 Letter from Professor Clark D. Cunningham to Fulton County Daily Report Analyzing Statement of Attorney General Olens on Ethics Commission Matters (without attachments-10pages)
(with attachments-74pages)
- August 24, 2014 Letter from Professor Clark D. Cunningham to Fulton County Daily Report: Updated Analysis of Statement of Attorney General Olens on Ethics Commission Matters (3 pages)
-- Professor Clark D. Cunningham, AG's Conduct Under Scrutiny (updated presentation originally presented August 29, 2014, for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, 25th Annual Urgent Legal Matters Seminar) (powerpoint version) (pdf version)
-- Order for Sanctions against Georgia Department of Law and Holly LaBerge filed September 3, 2014 (Judge Ural Glanville, Fulton County Superior Court)
-- More information including documents relating to Ethics Commission investigation of Governor Deal and Motion for Sanctions against the Attorney General

This page is maintained by
Professor Clark D. Cunningham
Director, National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism
W. Lee Burge Chair in Law & Ethics
Georgia State University College of Law
Atlanta, Georgia USA

Back to home page: www.clarkcunningham.org