The current model of legal ethics, informing
provincial rules of professional conduct, are based primarily on barrister dilemmas in relation to clients, courts and the wider public.
Not exact matches
If this proposed change is adopted,
provincial regulators will have to consider whether to similarly amend their
rules of professional conduct.
Interviews with 253 SRL's in my recent study (http://www.representing-yourself.com/PDF/reportM15.pdf) expose the reality that despite a decade
of provincial Law Societies drafting new
rules of professional conduct on limited scope retainers (LSR's) or unbundled legal services — when lawyers provide services on an hourly basis for specific contracted tasks — lawyers who regularly offer their clients LSR's are still about as rare as a shooting star on a cloudy night.
Various
provincial law societies within Canada provide, in written
rules of professional conduct, for the duties
of skill and care owed by solicitors to their clients during the course
of a retainer or engagement and following its conclusion.1.