{"id":4538,"date":"2026-10-27T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:30:59","slug":"supreme-court-rules-of-professional-practice-effective-november-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/2026\/10\/27\/supreme-court-rules-of-professional-practice-effective-november-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Rules of Professional Practice – Effective November 1, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCRP01-501. <\/a>Lawyer disciplinary and disability proceedings: purpose, authority, scope, and structure. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-502.<\/a> Definitions. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-503.<\/a> Oversight Committee for the office of Professional Conduct. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-510.<\/a> Ethics and Discipline Committee composition. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-511.<\/a> Screening panel composition; responsibilities. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-522.<\/a> Ethics advisory opinions. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-523.<\/a> OPC investigative subpoenas. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-530.<\/a> Professional misconduct proceedings. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-531.<\/a> Proceedings before Committee and screening panels. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-532. <\/a> Exceptions to screening panel determinations and recommendations. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-535. <\/a> Appealing a final Committee disposition to the Supreme Court. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-542. <\/a> Additional rules of procedure. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-552. <\/a> Diversion contract. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-553. <\/a> Respondent’s participation in diversion. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-560. <\/a> Grounds for discipline. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-561. <\/a> Accessing disciplinary information. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-563. <\/a> Interim discipline for threat of harm. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-567. <\/a> Reciprocal discipline. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-570. <\/a> Notice of disability or suspension; return of clients’ property; refund of unearned fees. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-580. <\/a> Purpose and nature of sanctions. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-581. <\/a> Sanctions. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-590. <\/a> Reinstatement following a suspension of no more than six months or probation. Amend
\n<\/b>SCRP01-591. <\/a> Reinstatement following a suspension of more than six months; relicensure. Amend
\n<\/b>The amendments to the rules listed above are intended for clarity and consistency and include: 1) creating a definition for sending documents and ensuring the usage is consistent throughout the rules; 2) removing most of the references to “licensed paralegal practitioners” as the definition of Lawyer was previously amended to include LPPs; 3) changing the definition of “Complainant” to no longer include the OPC; and 4) removing any inclusion of a hyphen\u00a0in “vice chairs.”
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

Supreme Court Order<\/a><\/p>\n

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SCRP01-501. Lawyer disciplinary and disability proceedings: purpose, authority, scope, and structure. Amend SCRP01-502. Definitions. Amend SCRP01-503. Oversight Committee for the office of Professional Conduct. Amend SCRP01-510. Ethics and Discipline Committee composition. Amend SCRP01-511. Screening panel composition; responsibilities. Amend SCRP01-522. Ethics advisory opinions. Amend SCRP01-523. OPC investigative subpoenas. Amend SCRP01-530. Professional misconduct proceedings. Amend SCRP01-531. Proceedings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,1170,1171,1172,1174,1175,1176,1177,1178,1179,1180,1181,1182,1183,1184,1173,1154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rules-of-professional-practice","category-scrp01-501","category-scrp01-502","category-scrp01-503","category-scrp01-511","category-scrp01-522","category-scrp01-523","category-scrp01-530","category-scrp01-531","category-scrp01-532","category-scrp01-535","category-scrp01-542","category-scrp01-552","category-scrp01-553","category-scrp01-560","category-scrp1-510","category-supreme-court-rules-of-professional-practice"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-04 22:16:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4584,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/4584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}