710 advisory opinions issued by the Texas Professional Ethics Committee from 1946 through April 2026 are systematically coded. The dataset includes the full text of each opinion and codes them across 28 subject matter categories, a conflict-of-interest layer, and analytic fields. It was created by Jamie Cooper and hosted on Harvard Dataverse.
Use Cases
- Track the evolution of legal ethics standards based on the coded opinions spanning three rule regimes (1940-2026).
- Analyze conflict-of-interest scenarios based on the dedicated conflict analytic extension fields for 229 opinions.
- Conduct text analysis on professional conduct questions using the included full text of each opinion.
- Validate coding quality by comparing against the independent subject index from the University of Houston Law Center.
Strengths
- 710 opinions provide a substantial corpus covering 80 years of advisory ethics guidance.
- Systematic coding across 28 subject matter categories and a dedicated conflict-of-interest layer adds structured metadata.
- Includes the full text of each opinion, sourced from the authoritative legalethicstexas.com website.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific analytical tasks.
Provenance
- Source
- Texas Professional Ethics Committee opinions extracted from legalethicstexas.com.
- Collection Method
- Systematic coding of opinions by the dataset author.
- Time Range
- 1946 to April 2026.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-11 14:29:46; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Texas, United States.