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State Bar & Bar Associations

May 11, 2010

State Bar Considers New Rules

The State Bar Board of Governors will consider more than a dozen new rules, many of which have stirred controversy, when it meets Saturday.

By Amy Yarbrough

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar Board of Governors will consider more than a dozen new rules - many of which have stirred controversy - when it meets Saturday.

The 16 new and amended rules, which sprang out of a larger effort by the State Bar to update its Rules of Professional Conduct, touch on issues including lawyers' duties when accepting appointments and how one should behave...

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