A Judicial Council news release reports the Supreme Court has approved “the first comprehensive amendments to the Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of California in twenty-nine years. The court approved forty-two rules as modified by the court, twenty-seven rules as submitted by the State Bar, and denied approval of one rule.” That’s one of the court’s non-case jobs.
The court’s order and the approved rules are here. The court’s modifications are both substantive and stylistic. The one rejected rule concerned a lawyer’s obligations in representing clients with diminished capacity.
[Update: one rule in particular has attracted national media attention — “California Supreme Court approves ban on attorney-client sex.”]
