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State Bar & Bar Associations

Jul. 28, 2010

Bar Updates Discipline Rules, Nixes 'Screening' Of Conflict Clients

Sending a major rewrite of the California lawyer discipline rules on to the Supreme Court, the State Bar nixed three proposals to allow firms to "screen" off client conflicts brought by a new lawyer.

By Don J. DeBenedictis

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Sending a major rewrite of the California lawyer discipline rules on to the Supreme Court, the State Bar jettisoned a trio of proposals to allow a law firm to "screen" off client conflicts brought to the firm by a new lawyer.

Acting during its meeting Friday and Saturday in Los Angeles, the Board of Governors also killed a proposal that would have require...

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