{"id":1595,"date":"2018-12-26T16:11:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T16:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2018-12-28T17:17:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:17:35","slug":"rules-of-professional-conduct-effective-december-19-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/2018\/12\/26\/rules-of-professional-conduct-effective-december-19-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules of Professional Conduct &#8211; Effective December 19, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/12\/Rule-7.5.Retired-Attorneys-and-Firm-Names.Comment-1.Redline.pdf\">RPC07.05.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Firm Names and Letterheads. Amend. Comment [1] is amended to conform to current practice, which is to allow the inclusion of both retired and deceased partners&#8217; names in firm names if there has been a continuing succession in the firm&#8217;s identity such that the firm name has become a trade name.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/12\/RPC08.04.Comment-1a.Redline.pdf\">RPC08.04.<\/a>\u00a0Misconduct. Amend. Comment [1a] is amended in response to In re Discipline of Steffensen, 2018 UT 53, Footnote 7, to eliminate confusion as to what sanctions may be applicable for a violation of Rule 8.4. The comment now provides that an act of professional misconduct under Rule 8.4(b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), or (h) cannot be counted as a separate violation of Rule 8.4(a) for the purpose of determining sanctions. Conduct that violates other Rules of Professional Conduct, however, may be a violation of Rule 8.4(a) for the purpose of determining sanctions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/12\/Signed-Order-Comment-1-R.-7.5-Comment-1a-R-8.4-Professional-Conduct-12-21-18.pdf\">Supreme Court Order<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RPC07.05.\u00a0\u00a0Firm Names and Letterheads. Amend. Comment [1] is amended to conform to current practice, which is to allow the inclusion of both retired and deceased partners&#8217; names in firm names if there has been a continuing succession in the firm&#8217;s identity such that the firm name has become a trade name. RPC08.04.\u00a0Misconduct. Amend. Comment [1a] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[550,888,437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rules-of-professional-conduct","category-rpc07-05","category-rpc08-04"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 09:19:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}