RESOURCES
Professional Responsibility Links
- ABA Center on Professional Responsibility
- ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (current revision)
- ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct (2007 revision)
- South Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct (South Carolina Supreme Court Rule 407)
- South Carolina Bar Ethics Advisory Opinion
- South Carolina Revised Lawyers’ Oath (South Carolina Supreme Court Rule 402)
- New York Rules of Professional Conduct
- NYSBA Committee on Professional Ethics Opinions
- Technethics – Technethics assists lawyers and law firms in complying with their ethical obligations on technology.
- List of links to the Rules of Professional Conduct of the 50 US Jurisdictions
Arbitration and Conciliation
- 1958 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York Convention) (In Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)
- 2006 Recommendation regarding interpretation of article II (2) and article VII (1) of the New York Convention
- 1975 Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration (Panama Convention) (In English, French and Spanish)
- 2002 UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Conciliation (In Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)
- Uniform Arbitration Act (United States)
- AAA The American Arbitration Association
- LII Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. Sect 1 et seq.)
- Japan Commercial Arbitration Association
Evidence, Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments
- 1968 European Convention on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters and subsequent Protocols and accession Conventions (Brussels) (In English and French)
- 1970 Hague Convention on Taking Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters (In English and French) (In Spanish)
- 1975 Inter-American Convention on Letters Rogatory (In English) and Additional protocol (In English and Spanish)
- 1988 European Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters and Protocols 1, 2 and 3 (Lugano) (In English and French)
- 2007 Amendment of Lugano Convention
- 2001 Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matter (In English and French)
International Contracts
- 1978 United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hamburg Rules)
(In Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish) - 1980 Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations (Rome Convention) (Original and consolidated convention and 1 st and 2 nd protocols) (In 11 languages)
- 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna Convention) (In English)
- 1988 United Nations Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes (New York)
- 1995 United Nations Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-By Letters of Credit (New York) (In Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)
- 2001 United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade (In Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)
- 2004 UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts
- International Chamber of Commerce
Bar Associations