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