Unauthorized Practice of Law
 

    Note: "Court Rules" volume of the Tennessee Code for "Supreme Court
          Locate Rule 8, RPC 5.5 for "Notes to Decisions" and "Non-lawyer employees."  There is a Tennessee case listed.
    Model Standards and Guidelines for the Utilization of Paralegals

Search for "unauthorized" within the document.
(http://www.nala.org/model.aspx)

    Rules of Professional Conduct of the Supreme Court of Tennessee

See Chapter 5 of Rule 8 to search within Rule 5.5 for nonlawyer.
(http://www.tbpr.org/Attorneys/Rule8.aspx)

    Professional Issues

Unauthorized practice of law articles from the National Federation of Paralegal Associations are in a group toward the end of the page.
(http://www.paralegals.org/associations/2270/files/home3.html)

Chattanooga and Tennessee

    Tennessee Ethics Handbook, 5th ed.
         From the Tennessee Bar Association.  Includes amendments through 2001.
         (http://www.tba.org/committees/Conduct/ethicshandbook.pdf)
    Formal Ethics Opinions
        From the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.  These opinions can be searched.
        Also browse opinions by clicking Tennessee Ethics Opinions.
        (http://www.tbpr.org/Attorneys/EthicsOpinions/)
    City of Chattanooga Resolution No. 24557
        To establish a Conflict of Interest and Ethics Code for members of the Chattanooga City Council
        passed 9/27/05.  When prompted to choose open, click open.  This Resolution is a Word document.
        (http://www.chattanooga.gov)
    Rules of the Tennessee Ethics Commission
        From the Tennessee Secretary of State website.
        (http://www.state.tn.us/sos/rules/0580/0580.htm)
 

Court Rules

    Court Rules

In LexisNexis Academic database from the library home page.  These rules are part of the Tennessee Code Annotated
also available in hard copy.
(http://library.chattanoogastate.edu)

    Tennessee Court Rules

From the Tennessee Supreme Court.  Look for the different links to various courts.
(http://www.tsc.state.tn.us/opinions/tsc/rules/TNrulesofcourt/rulesindex.htm)

    Tennessee Supreme Court Rule Index

Has the various rules that are not annotated.  Highlight what is needed to print, since all the rules are shown.
(http://www.tsc.state.tn.us/opinions/tsc/rules/TNrulesofcourt/scindex.htm) 

Associations and Codes of Conduct

    ABA Model Guidelines for the Utilization of Paralegal Services

From the American Bar Association.
(http://www.abanet.org/legalservices/paralegals/downloads/modelguidelines.pdf)

    Attorney-Client and Attorney Work Product Privileges: Their Application to Paralegals
         From the National Federation of Paralegal Associations.
         (http://www.paralegals.org/associations/2270/files/home33.html)
    Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee

Has various information including checking on the status and public discipline of an attorney.  Rules of Professional Conduct 8 and 9 are available here.
(http://www.tbpr.org/Attorneys/)

    Ethics

From the National Federation of Paralegal Associations.  Includes the Model Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility and other documents, for example, on conflict of interest.
(http://www.paralegals.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=796)

    Model Rules of Professional Conduct

From the American Bar Association.
(http://www.abanet.org/cpr/mrpc/mrpc_toc.html)

    National Association of Legal Assistants

Has model standards and guidelines.
(http://www.nala.org/model.aspx)

    Professional Issues

From the National Federation of Paralegal Associations has links to articles about unauthorized practice of law
toward the end of the page.
(http://www.paralegals.org/associations/2270/files/home3.html)  

    Tennessee Rules of Professional Conduct

From the Tennessee Bar Association.  Includes responsibilities regarding nonlawyer assistants.  The pdf version is
here.
(http://www.tba.org/ethics/index.html)

Educational Sites

    Tennessee Legal Ethics Materials

From Cornell University's American Legal Ethics Library.  Cornell University's Legal Information Institute has listings
by jurisdiction, topic, and special collections.  Topical Overview covers client-lawyer relationships and other issues.  Many useful links, such as Code of Judicial Conduct.
(http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/tennessee.html)

    WashLaw Ethics

Links are provided by Washburn School of Law.
(http://www.washlaw.edu/subject/ethics.html)

Commercial Sites

    Ethics & Professional Responsibility

From FindLaw has a variety of links.
(http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/14ethics/)

EBooks

    Attorney-client Privilege and the Work-product Doctrine

Edna Epstein (Chicago: American Bar Association, 1997)

    Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics

Timothy F. Murphy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004)

    Ethical Standards in the Public Sector: A Guide for Government Lawyers, Clients, and Public Officials

Patricia E. Salkin (Chicago: American Bar Association, 1999)

    Textbook of Healthcare Ethics

Erich H. Loewy and Roberta S. Loewy (2nd ed.; Dordrecht, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004)