Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Jul. 15, 2021
Don’t live in tech ethics peril: Ethics reforms need your attention
California’s historic adoption of new ethics rules in 2018 is now behind us, but the switch to the American Bar Association’s version of those rules is a growing force in the practice of law in our state.
California's historic adoption of new ethics rules in 2018 is now behind us, but the switch to the American Bar Association's version of those rules is a growing force in the practice of law in our state. There are no two better examples of this phenomenon than the latest changes which went into effect on March 22 to the duty of competency (California Rule of Professional Conduct Rule 1.1, comment 1) and fee-sharing with nonattorneys. Rule 5.4(e)(6).
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