Perspective
Aug. 2, 2010
Why the Proposed New Rules of Professional Conduct Should Be Rejected
This second installment in opposition criticizes the proposed new Rules of Professional Conduct as suffering from wordiness and vagueness, by Kurt W. Melchior of Nossaman and Jerome Sapiro Jr. of The Sapiro Law Firm.
In our last segment, we introduced the subject of the Rules revisions and described the closeness of the votes on many controversial issues. We continue with a discussion of the new Rules' vagueness and wordiness.
Because they are disciplinary rules, our current rules establish bright line tests for permissible or impermissible behavior. The new rules often do not. Instead, they a...
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