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Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, Number Four contains four essays concerning the 1887 Code of Ethics of the Alabama State Bar Association and its author, Thomas Goode Jones (1844-1914). Jones' Code of Ethics is also included. Jones was an Alabama lawyer, judge, house representative, and governor. The 1887 Code of Ethics of the Alabama State Bar Association was the first code of legal ethics created by a state bar association and served as a structure for following codes of ethics. Jones' Code of Ethics is composed of some 57 "duties specifically enjoined by law upon attorneys..."
Publication Date
2003
Publisher
University of Alabama School of Law
City
Tuscaloosa
Keywords
John C. Payne Special Collections, Thomas Goode Jones, Alabama governors, Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Alabama House of Representatives
Disciplines
Law | Legal History
Recommended Citation
Andrews, Carol Rice; Pruitt, Paul M. Jr.; Durham, David I.; and Jones, Thomas Goode, "Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, Number Four: Gilded Age of Legal Ethics: Essays on Thomas Goode Jones' 1887 Code and the Regulation of the Profession" (2003). Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library. 4.
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/occasional_publications/4