Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Aug. 30, 2014
Delay in rules update raises questions
The State Bar is now sending proposed rules of professional conduct up to the state Supreme Court one by one for formal adoption. The status of this effort raises some important questions.
As many California lawyers know, the State Bar has been working to update California's Rules of Professional Conduct since 2001 in an effort to conform the state rules to the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Currently, since the state Supreme Court rejected a proposed overhaul of the rules in 2011, and some 14 years after the project began, the State Bar is sending proposed rules up one by one for formal adoption. The status of this effort raises some impor...
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