{"id":3340,"date":"2023-05-17T22:14:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T22:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2023-05-19T19:14:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T19:14:52","slug":"rules-of-professional-conduct-effective-may-17-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/2023\/05\/17\/rules-of-professional-conduct-effective-may-17-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules of Professional Conduct – Effective May 17, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
RPC01.01. <\/a>Competence.<\/strong>\u00a0 AMEND.\u00a0 Adds comment [9], which states, “Lawyers should be aware that their mental, emotional, and physical well-being may impact their ability to represent clients and, as such, is an important aspect of maintaining competence to practice law and compliance with the standards of professionalism and civility. Resources supporting lawyer well-being are available through the Utah State Bar.”<\/div>\n
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The ABA has proposed\u2014but not yet adopted\u2014a comment to Rule 1.1 that contains permissive language tying lawyer well-being to competence (See Advisory Committee materials\u00a0here<\/a>). The above comment is Utah’s version of the ABA proposal.<\/div>\n
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The ABA and jurisdictions throughout the country have grappled with the question of how to de-stigmatize the topic of mental health in the legal profession. Utah has taken the bold step of making well-being resources, such as\u00a0Unmind\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Tava Health<\/a>,\u00a0readily available through\u00a0the\u00a0Utah State Bar<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Comment 9 to Rule 1.1 takes this a step further\u00a0by explaining the nexus between well-being and lawyer competence. The addition is not meant to be punitive or impose additional requirements or burdens on lawyers. Rather, it is intended to be educational and to point lawyers to the importance of prioritizing their well-being.<\/div>\n
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RPC01.01. Competence.\u00a0 AMEND.\u00a0 Adds comment [9], which states, “Lawyers should be aware that their mental, emotional, and physical well-being may impact their ability to represent clients and, as such, is an important aspect of maintaining competence to practice law and compliance with the standards of professionalism and civility. Resources supporting lawyer well-being are available through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[550,485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rules-of-professional-conduct","category-rpc01-01"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 01:05:20","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\/3340","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=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}