Since then, no court has ruled in favor of forced organ or tissue donations, lawyers and ethics experts said.

Judge Trager refused to recuse himself, and many ethics experts agreed.

That is why law firms have at least begun keeping trained ethics experts on hand.

But some legal ethics experts said it was far from clear that ethics rules required the firm to drop the city as a client.

But, in contrast, several legal ethics experts said, a positional conflict often does not require a law firm to step down.

So, they say, they consulted three separate panels of ethics experts for advice.

What bothers ethics experts is the possible conflict between lawyer and client, particularly in plea bargaining.

The notion that you want your company to stand for values is laudable, many ethics experts agree.

Legal ethics experts say judges are not obliged to recuse themselves in such cases.

The number of complaints involving such relationships has mushroomed, ethics experts say, and some states have adopted their own rules.