Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee ("PREC")
Draft Comment Letters to Proposed Amendments to the Rules
of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of California as of
August 16, 2016
Read "A Practitioner's Guide to Proposed Rule Revisions" by PREC Chair Teresa J. Schmid.
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 1.0 [1-100]
Purpose and Function of the Rules of Professional Conduct
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 1.1 [3-110]
Competence
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 1.3
Diligence
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 1.4.1 [3-510]
Communication of Settlement Offers
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6 [3-100]
Confidential Information of a Client
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 1.8.10 [3-120]
Sexual Relations With Client
Proposed Rules of Professional Conduct 1.12
Former Judge, Arbitrator, Mediator Or Other Third-Party Neutral
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 1.14 [3-100]
Client with Diminished Capacity
Proposed Rules of Professional Conduct 1.15 [4-100]
Safe Keeping Funds and Property of Clients and Other Persons
Proposed Rules of Professional Conduct 3.2
Delay of Litigation
Proposed Rules of Professional Conduct 3.5 [5-300/5/-320]
Contact With Judges, Officials, Employees and Jurors
Proposed Rules of Professional Conduct 4.2 [2-100]
Communication with a Represented Person
Proposed Rules of Professional Conduct 4.4
Duties Concerning Inadvertently Transmitted Writings
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 5.1
Responsibilities of Managerial and Supervisory Lawyers
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 5.3
Responsibilities Regarding Nonlawyer Assistants
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 5.3.1 [1-311]
Employment of Disbarred, Suspended, Resigned or Involuntarily Inactive Lawyer
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 5.4 [1-320]
Financial and Similar Arrangements With Nonlawyers
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 5.5 [1-300]
Unauthorized Practice of Law; Multijurisdictional Practice of Law
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 6.3
Membership In Legal Services Organization
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 7.1 [1-400]
Communications Concerning a Lawyer's Services
Proposed Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 8.1 [1-200]
False Statement Regarding Application for Admission, Readmission, Certification or Registration
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 8.1.1 [1-110]
Compliance with Conditions of Discipline and Agreements in Lieu of Discipline
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 8.2 [1-700]
Judicial Officials
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4 [1-120]
Misconduct
Proposed Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4.1 [2-400]
Prohibited Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation