Free Legal Research Resources: Legal Ethics Online

Index and links to full text of formal ethics opinions, going back to 1980.

Use the Google Custom Search box at the top of the page to locate Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility topics addressing any issue or key word.

Advisory opinions from Tennessee's judicial ethics committee.

Most recent 12 months are easily accessible. For earlier opinions, search Google using opinion number and/or key words and the command filetype:pdf

State-by-state links to ethics rules, opinions, and more.

Semi-annual newsletter from the TBPR to help keep up with ethics opinions and other ethics and professionalism matters in Tennessee.

Daily e-newsletter from the Tennessee Bar Association.

How to save a Twitter search, access it in the future, and delete it if no longer useful.

Service to monitor website changes.

Service to monitor website changes.

Law specifying privacy protections afforded to employees with respect to online activities.

Article on issues with current federal online privacy laws, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

Article explaining issues with your internet provider collecting your search and browsing data, and how to prevent them from doing so.

Evaluations of different browsers based on privacy and security.

Extension for Firefox and Chrome blocks cookies that track and report on your browsing and clicks.

Browser extension blocks ads and most tracking cookies.

Firefox add-on keeps Facebook segregated from your other web activity, so Facebook cannot track your search or browsing outside of its own site.

Article from Privacy Rights Clearinghouse with ideas about how to keep your mobile activity confidential and secure.

Article reviewing top email services for security and privacy.

Article explaining email tracking and giving steps on how to prevent it.

Article explaining ethical problems with employing web beacons/email tracking and discussing ethics opinions regarding their use by attorneys.

ABA "white paper" outlining potential issues and pitfalls with respect to attorney use of social media.