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Perspective

Jul. 30, 2010

Why the Proposed New Rules of Professional Conduct Should Be Rejected

The package of proposed new Rules of Professional Conduct will lead the State Bar down the wrong path, by Kurt W. Melchior of Nossaman and Jerome Sapiro Jr. of The Sapiro Law Firm.

By Kurt W. Melchior and Jerome Sapiro Jr.

We submitted the following as a dissent to the submission of a package of proposed new Rules of Professional Conduct, which is many hundreds of pages long and has gone from the Commission on Revision to the State Bar Board of Governors in the last few days. But we believe that the dissent will be buried within the cyclone of words that has gone forward, and more importantly, we feel that the issues concerning the ...

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