As an avid collector of legal ethics works, it’s with special pleasure that I now can add to my hard-copy library a reviewer’s copy of Bill Wernz’s “Minnesota Legal Ethics: A Treatise.” With its publication, Minnesota lawyers will enjoy perhaps the most important ethics publishing event in the history of the Minnesota bar. That doesn’t say nearly enough for this truly fine work. At least in the treatise line, Bill’s only direct competition is the meager and hopelessly dated effort that the late Morris Clark and I put together in the mid-1970s—well back in the stone age of legal ethics scholarship. It was not remotely as fine a book as is Bill’s.
You can read the full review of Dorsey Partner William Wernz's, Minnesota Legal Ethics: A Treatise here.