Rules Governing the Utah State Bar – Effective February 1, 2019
USB14-802. Amend. Authorization to practice to law. The amendments to Rule 14–802 clarify that the forms an LPP may use are forms approved by the Judicial Council.
Month: January 2019
Posted: January 29, 2019
Rules Governing Licensed Paralegal Practitioner – Effective January 16, 2019
Client – LLP Relationship
The amendments to the comments are to remove references to an organization as a client because an LPP may not represent an organization as a client.
URGLPP1.04. Communication.
URGLPP1.06. Confidentiality of information.
URGLPP1.07. Conflict of interest: current clients.
URGLPP1.08. Conflict of interest: current clients: specific rules.
URGLPP1.09. Duties to former clients.
URGLPP1.017. Sale of licensed paralegal practice.
URGLPP7.02. Advertising.
URGLPP7.03. Solicitation of clients.
Posted: January 29, 2019
Code of Judicial Administration – Effective January 28, 2019
CJA04-0409. Council approval of Problem Solving Courts.
AMEND. Removes certification criteria from Rule 4-409 and adds those items to the Judicial Council’s problem solving court certification checklist. Clarifies and provided greater detail regarding the Judicial Council’s problem solving court certification process. Makes miscellaneous stylistic changes and minor non-substantive revisions.
Posted: January 4, 2019
Rules of Civil Procedure – Effective May 1, 2019
URCP005. Service and filing of pleadings and other papers. Amend. Paragraph (b)(3)(B) is amended to remove the requirement that a person must agree to accept service by email in order to be served by email. If a person provides an email address pursuant to Rule 10(a)(3) or Rule 76, the person may be served Rule 5 papers at that address.
URCP109. Injunction in certain domestic relations cases. New. Provides that in certain domestic relations cases, an injunction will enter upon the filing of the case. Its provisions address areas such as disposing of property, disturbing the peace of the other party, committing domestic violence, using the other party’s identification to obtain credit, interfering with telephone or utility service, modifying insurance, and behavior around the minor children. The injunction is binding on the petitioner upon filing the initial petition and on the respondent after the filing of the initial petition and upon receipt of a signed copy of the injunction as entered by the court.