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Washington, DC — February 3, 2014 — In addition to its own recommendations, the American Bar Association's (ABA) Standing Committee for Pro Bono and Public Service (Standing Committee) on Friday indicated its support of Equal Justice Works» effort to build into the standards a 50 - hour aspirational pro bono goal for students that would mirror the guidance offered to attorneys in Model Rule of Professional Conduct 6.1.

The American Bar Association's Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6 and similar state bar rules prohibit attorneys from disclosing information relating to their representation of a client without the client's consent.

Acknowledging that cloud computing is a form of outsourcing, the Commission invites feedback on the extent to which the procedures outlined in ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 08 - 451 (describing a lawyer's obligations when outsourcing work to lawyers and non-lawyers) should apply in the cloud computing context and seeks input into whether cloud computing should affect the Commission's ongoing examination of possible amendments to Model Rule of Professional Conduct 5.3.

Be sure to review ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5: Fees when devising using your fee structure.

The Comment to ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 7.6 states that «lawyers have a right to participate fully in the political process, which includes making and soliciting political contributions to candidates for judicial and other public office.»

Under Model Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4 (e), a lawyer may not «state or imply an ability to influence improperly a government agency or official or to achieve results by means that violate the Rules of Professional Conduct or other law.»

While no ethical rules specifically require this, Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.3 imposes a duty to act with «reasonable diligence» in representing a client.

But in the 2011 article «Legal Ethics and Campaign Contributions: The Professional Responsibility to Pay for Justice» in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Professor Keith Swisher argues that failure to disclose may implicate Model Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4 (f).

Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.2 (d), issued by the American Bar Association, says that a lawyer should «not counsel a client to engage, or assist a client in conduct that the lawyer knows is criminal or fraudulent.»

Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.3 requires lawyers to «act with reasonable diligence and promptness in representing a client.»

It's ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6 (a) that explains this for us.

In part, Model Rule of Professional Conduct 4.1 prohibits attorneys from making a false statement of a material fact or law in the course of representing a client.

And the ABA has a point; the ABA's Model Rule of Professional Responsibility and every state ethics code mandate that lawyers safeguard client information and keep it confidential.

In addition to having a ready copy available in the clients paper file, Model Rule of Professional Responsibility 1.16 (d) requires a lawyer to take steps to reasonably protect a client's interests, including surrendering papers and property to the client.

The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 is seeking comments on a newly released Issues Paper entitled «Issues Paper Concerning Model Rule of Professional Conduct 5.5 and the Limits on Virtual Presence in a Jurisdiction.»

First, lawyers» duty is not to provide zealous advocacy, that is a concept found in, and likely unintentionally borrowed from, the Model Rules of Professional Conduct of the American Bar Association, not those of the Canadian Bar Association.

When the ABA updated the Model Rules of Professional Conduct in 2012, two significant changes occurred regarding confidentiality and competency.

One of the most enduring purposes behind the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and corresponding state ethics standards is to protect clients and the public from «overreaching, overcharging, underrepresentation and misrepresentation.»

Formal Opinion 480 explains that lawyers communicating about legal topics in public commentary must comply with the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, including Rule 1.6 (a) which says: «A lawyer shall not reveal information relating to the representation of a client unless the client gives informed consent, the disclosure is impliedly authorized in order to carry out the representation, or the disclosure is permitted by paragraph (b).»

ABA attempts to clarify rules on lawyers» use of internet marketing tools with its recent proposed amendments to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

According to Rule 1.1: Competence, of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, «A lawyer shall provide competent representation to a client.

The American Bar Association has amended the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct dated August to help attorneys better understand how they may permissibly use internet marketing technologies for client development.

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct, however, do not require a lawyer to go down with the client's ship.

In fact, the confusion has led the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services to propose changes to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

The new opinion, Formal Opinion 477 (embedded copy below), updates Formal Opinion 99 - 413, issued in 1999, to reflect changes in the digital landscape as well as 2012 changes to the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct, particularly the addition of the duty of technology competence in Model Rule 1.1 and changes to Rule 1.6 regarding client confidences.

Regardless of how lucrative or fulfilling a side job can be, lawyers are obligated to ensure what they're engaging in is also ethical under the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and state ethics rules.

The ABA created the Commission on Ethics 20/20, the purpose of which was to conduct «a thorough review of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct» to consider the need for change in light of the impact of new technology.

The ABA drove this home last August, when it amended the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to make clear that a lawyer's duty of competence encompasses the duty to keep abreast of «the benefits and risks» associated with technology.

A lawyer generally may transmit information relating to the representation of a client over the Internet without violating the Model Rules of Professional Conduct where the lawyer has undertaken reasonable efforts to prevent inadvertent or unauthorized access.

In Comment 8 to Rule 1.1 of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the ABA explicitly imposes the duty of technological competence on lawyers as a reminder to lawyers that they should remain aware of technology.

The phrase I've italicized is the same as the language that the ABA recommended in 2012 when it approved a change to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to make clear that lawyers have a duty to be competent not only in the law and its practice, but also in technology.

Under his leadership, the committee developed and successfully proposed to the Tennessee Supreme Court new legal ethics rules for Tennessee based on the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

If your going to be online, you are responsible for making sure the content adheres to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

Comment on Rule 1.15 in the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct states, «A lawyer should maintain on a current basis books and records in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice and comply with any recordkeeping rules established by law or court order.»

As NSU explains, «This course provides hands - on experience for students on a number of key operational aspects of the practice of law, including the business foundation of successful law firm management; security and confidentiality of client information; marketing, public relations, advertising and social media; duties of technological competence under ABA «Ethics 20/20» amendments to the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility; predictive coding and other eDiscovery issues; client intake and case management; and issues related to the scope and composition of representation, including the unauthorized practice of law and unbundled legal services.»

-- «Model Rules of Professional Conduct: Preface.»

Lawyers have to abide by the rules of professional responsibility, such as Rule 1.1: Competence, of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, «A lawyer shall provide competent representation to a client.

The Federation of Law Societies of Canada has proposed amending the Model Rules of Professional Conduct — the enforceable rules of conduct that set out the baseline standards of professionalism to which lawyers in Canada must adhere — to include technical competency as a component of the definition of «competency.»

Comment 3 to Rule 7.2 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct points out that questions of effectiveness and taste in advertising are «matters of speculation and subjective judgment.»

While many lawyers will make the easier ethical decisions in their careers more by thinking logically and applying common sense than by reading the rules, along the way in history the rule makers have agreed with the commenter to my post, that common sense does not make a cognizable set of rules for the masses to follow, and thus they wrote precursors to today's American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

The committee's proposal «moves beyond the comment to craft a distinct rule within the black letter of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct prohibiting lawyers from engaging in harassment and knowing discrimination in conduct related to the practice of law» against people on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or socioeconomic status.

Perhaps the most direct rule on point is Rule 5.3: Responsibilities Regarding Nonlawyer Assistance in the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

In a case involving out - of - state practice in an AAA commercial arbitration, the SJC notes that the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct now expressly permit -LSB-...]

The first amended Rule 1.6 of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct to permit a lawyer to reveal confidential client information if the client is using the lawyer's services to commit a crime or fraud that would cause financial harm to others.

Under the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct, an attorney can not talk to a represented party about the pending dispute without permission from the party's attorney.

To that end, she thinks the June 2015 proposal (PDF) from the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers to simplify and streamline the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct as they relate to lawyers who advertise is a good starting point.

The ABA's Ethics 20/20 Commission recently released a draft proposal (PDF) of changes to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to assist attorneys in the potential ethics thornbush of online client development.

A measure to amend the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct to permit law firms to screen lateral hires so that conflicts of interest are not imputed to all lawyers at the hiring firm.

So that begs the question: what would this proposed rule be doing in the Model Rules of Professional Conduct?

Here is the unfortunate way the American Bar Association responded when Wolters Kluwer asked to reprint some of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct in a professional responsibility course book, Ethical Problems In The Practice Of Law: