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The Law Governing Lawyers: Model Rules, Restatement, and Other Sources of Law 2026-2027

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  • Susan R. Martyn
  • Lawrence J. Fox
  • W. Bradley Wendel
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322 pages
Publication Date
2026-04-02
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This volume introduces the reader to national standards to illustrate the growing body of law that governs lawyer conduct: the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, and selected federal statutes and rules.

New to the 2026-2027 Edition:

  • The 2026-2027 Edition features the 2025 American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct, as amended through January 5, 2026.
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About the authors
Susan Martyn
Professor
University of Toledo

Susan Martyn is Distinguished University Professor and Stoepler Professor of Law and Values Emeritus at the University of Toledo College of Law, where she taught Legal Ethics, Torts, and Bioethics. She has also served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Marquette, George Washington, and Yale Law Schools.

Professor Martyn has been instrumental in developing the law governing lawyers, serving as an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers (1987-2000), and as a member of the American Bar Association’s Ethics 2000 Commission, which updated the Model Rules of Professional Conduct (1997-2002). She has been a member of the Michigan, Ohio, and Supreme Court Bars, and served on the Ohio Supreme Court’s Task Force on the Rules of Professional Conduct (2003-2006). She also was a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (2007-2010), and is a life member of the American Law Institute.

With Larry Fox, Professor Martyn has written a casebook, Traversing the Ethical Minefield: Problems, Law, and Professional Responsibility, and edited The Law Governing Lawyers: Model Rules, Restatement, and Other Sources of Law (joined by W. Bradley Wendel). Together, Professor Martyn and Mr. Fox have also authored Red Flags: A Lawyer's Handbook on Legal Ethics, Your Lawyer: A User’s Guide, How to Deal with Your Lawyer: Answers to Commonly Asked Questions, The Ethics of Representing Organizations: Legal Fictions for Clients, Fair Fight: Legal Ethics for Litigators, and Representing Clients: An Ethics Guide for Clinical Law Students and Emerging Lawyers. They have also contributed to and served as editors of A Century of Legal Ethics: Trial Lawyers and The ABA Canons of Professional Ethics.

Lawrence J. Fox
Partner, Drinker Biddle & Reath
Visiting Lecture in Law, Yale Law School

Lawrence J. Fox is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School, Partner at Schoeman Updike Kaufman & Gerber in New York City, and former Managing Partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in Philadelphia. Mr. Fox has been a trial lawyer specializing in securities litigation and the representation of lawyers. He was an advisor to The American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers project. He is a former member and Chair of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. He was a member of the American Bar Association Ethics 2000 project and he has written and spoken extensively on the subject of lawyers’ professional responsibility, giving lectures at more than thirty law schools. Mr. Fox is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and The American Bar Foundation, a former Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation, and a former Chair of the American Bar Association Death Penalty Representation Project. He served as a member of the ABA House of Delegates and was awarded the ABA President’s Medal in 2021 for rendering “conspicuous service to the cause of American jurisprudence."

Mr. Fox is the author of dozens of law review articles and several chapters in Legal Tender: A Lawyer’s Guide to Handling Professional Dilemmas and Raise the Bar: Real World Solutions for a Troubled Profession. He and Professor Martyn have published seven different professional responsibility books. Mr. Fox graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and cum laude from the Law School. He was Managing Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and clerked for Samuel J. Roberts, Justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Before joining Drinker Biddle & Reath he was a legal services lawyer at Community Action for Legal Services in New York City.

W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell University

Brad Wendel is the Edwin H. Woodruff Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, where he teaches Professional Responsibility, Torts, Products Liability, and Mass Torts. Professor Wendel is the co-author of a casebook, Hazard, Koniak, Cramton, Cohen & Wendel, The Law and Ethics of Lawyering, and the author of a textbook, Professional Responsibility: Examples and Explanations. He has published two books on theoretical topics in legal ethics, Lawyers and Fidelity to Law (Princeton University Press 2010), and Canceling Lawyers (Oxford University Press 2024), along with numerous law review articles. From 2011 through 2012, Professor Wendel served as a Reporter to a working group within the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, which considered amendments to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. He is currently a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct (COSAC).

Before joining the Cornell faculty, Professor Wendel clerked for the Honorable Andrew J. Kleinfeld of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, practiced law in Seattle, obtained a graduate degree in legal philosophy, and was on the faculty of Washington and Lee Law School.
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Publication date
2026-04-02
Copyright Year
2026
Pages
322
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9798899639135
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9798899639159
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