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Perspective

Aug. 5, 2010

Why the Proposed New Rules of Professional Conduct Should Be Rejected

The last installment of dissent to the proposed new Rules of Professional Conduct attacks its treatment of conflicts of interest, by Kurt W. Melchior of Nossaman and Jerome Sapiro Jr. of The Sapiro Law Firm.

By Kurt W. Melchior and Jerome Sapiro Jr.

This is the final installment of our dissent to the proposed revised Rules of professional Conduct, which will come before the Board of Governors before the end of this month. If you share our concern that these proposed revisions will be overdone and will make the practice of law more cumbersome, costly and difficult without providing meaningful further protection to clients, let the Board of Governors know yo...

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