Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Aug. 16, 2014
Effort to update California lawyer discipline rules nearing 15 years
The State Bar has been working since 2000 to rewrite its discipline rules to align with ABA model rules. The enormous final product still isn't ready for Supreme Court review.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
It's clearly not easy to write rules for lawyers. The American Bar Association took almost five years to write and adopt broad changes to its Model Rules of Professional Conduct in a project called Ethics 2000. But in California, a similar project launched in 2000 is still struggling along - 14 years later.
"To me, it's a scandal," said Paul W. Vapnek of Kilpatrick Townsend &a...
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