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Summer 2009
Corporate Ethics: Keep Your Corporate Scandals to a Minimum
Use the materials on Westlaw to help you with those ethical and compliance issues that invariably arise in your corporate work.
Use the Westlaw Directory
You can find a wealth of corporate and legal ethics databases in the Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility section of the Westlaw Directory. To display this section, click Directory at the top of any page, then click Topical Practice Areas. Scroll down the page and click Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
From the directory, you can easily access state rules of professional conduct, American Bar Association materials, disciplinary and ethics opinions, and treatises and law reviews.
Other useful databases
Corporate Counsel Guidelines
The Corporate Counsel Guidelines database (CORPCG) analyzes the legal principles and rules unique to in-house corporate counsel. Chapters 1 and 2 concentrate on the attorney-client privilege and the work-product doctrine, and chapter 3 concentrates on ethical issues faced by in-house counsel.
You can access the CORPCG database at the Westlaw GC page or the Corporate Governance page. At the Westlaw GC page, click Corporate Counsel Guidelines under Handbooks and Treatises. At the Corporate Governance page, click Corporate Counsel Guidelines under Corporate Governance. The table of contents is displayed. Browse the table of contents by clicking the plus and minus symbols. To see all the sections in a chapter, select the check box next to that chapter and click Expand Selection(s) at the bottom of the page. To view the full text of a section, click its link.
The Rutter Group–California Practice Guide: Professional Responsibility
The Rutter Group–California Practice Guide: Professional Responsibility database (TRG-CAPROFR) analyzes professional responsibility issues confronted by lawyers in both civil and criminal practice, from attracting clients through terminating the attorney-client relationship.
Chapter 7 deals with confidentiality and privilege, with sections on maintaining client confidentiality and secrets (one topic of discussion is the use of e-mail communications, the attorney-client privilege, and the attorney work-product doctrine).