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Perspective

Aug. 12, 2010

Principles or Rules: What Is the Best Approach to Regulation?

Perhaps insight into drafting strategies will clarify the controversy over changes to our Rules of Professional Conduct, by Robert L. Kehr of Kehr, Schiff & Crane.

By Robert L. Kehr

For the past several years, the Commission for the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct has been immersed in the painstaking, and sometimes painful, process of considering possible changes to California's Rules of Professional Conduct. The Commission was charged with this task because of developments during the more than 20 years since the last major overhaul of California's Rules - most significantly the American Bar As...

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