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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Nov. 1, 2014

Supreme Court rejection of new discipline rules frustrates members of revision panel

Members of a special State Bar commission are deeply upset that the bar and the Supreme Court dumped their decade work rewriting California's Rules of Professional Conduct. They blame the court for some delay and confusion.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Members of a special State Bar commission are deeply upset that the bar and the Supreme Court decided last month to jettison the decade of exacting work the panelists put in rewriting California's Rules of Professional Conduct and to order a new commission to begin all over again.


Acting on a request from the State Bar leadership, the court on Sept. 19 rejected some proposed rule changes an...

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