{"id":2179,"date":"2020-06-17T05:10:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T12:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2020-08-02T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T15:12:09","slug":"rules-of-professional-conduct-and-rules-governing-the-utah-state-bar-comment-period-closes-august-1-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/2020\/06\/17\/rules-of-professional-conduct-and-rules-governing-the-utah-state-bar-comment-period-closes-august-1-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules of Professional Conduct and Rules Governing the Utah State Bar &#8211; Comment Period Closed August 1, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rules of Professional Conduct<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Public Service<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2020\/06\/RPC06.05.FOR-COMMENT.pdf\">RPC06.05.<\/a> Short-term Limited Legal Services.\u00a0<b>AMEND<\/b>. Broadens the term &#8220;short-term legal services&#8221; to include one-time consultations and representations through government- and law school-sponsored programs. Further provides that other lawyers in a firm are not disqualified from representing clients whose interests are adverse to a client who received short-term limited legal services from a lawyer in the firm if (1) the lawyer who provided the services is timely screened from the adverse clients\u2019 matters, and (2) receives no fees from those matters.<\/p>\n<p>Maintaining the Integrity of the Profession<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2020\/06\/RPC08.04.FOR-COMMENT.pdf\">RPC08.04.<\/a> Misconduct.\u00a0<b>AMEND.\u00a0<\/b>Provides that it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to engage in conduct that is an unlawful, discriminatory, or retaliatory employment practice under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or the Utah Antidiscrimination Act. &#8220;Employer&#8221; means any person or entity that employs one or more persons. The amendments also provide that it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to egregiously violate, or engage in a pattern of repeated violations, of the Standards of Professionalism and Civility if such violations harm the lawyer&#8217;s client or another lawyer&#8217;s client or are prejudicial to the administration of justice.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Rules Governing the Utah State Bar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Standards of Professionalism and Civility<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2020\/06\/USB14-301.FOR-COMMENT.pdf\">USB14-0301.<\/a> Standards of Professionalism and Civility.\u00a0<b>AMEND<\/b>. Rule 8.4(h) makes the provisions of this rule mandatory for all lawyers. Amendments further provide that lawyers shall avoid hostile, demeaning, humiliating, or discriminatory conduct in law-related activities. Law-related activities include, but are not limited to, settlement negotiations; depositions; mediations; court appearances; CLE\u2019s; events sponsored by the Bar, Bar sections, or Bar associations; and firm parties. Discriminatory conduct includes all discrimination against protected classes as those classes are enumerated in the Utah Antidiscrimination Act of 1965, Utah Code section 34A-5-106(1)(a), and federal statutes, as amended from time to time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rules of Professional Conduct Public Service RPC06.05. Short-term Limited Legal Services.\u00a0AMEND. Broadens the term &#8220;short-term legal services&#8221; to include one-time consultations and representations through government- and law school-sponsored programs. Further provides that other lawyers in a firm are not disqualified from representing clients whose interests are adverse to a client who received short-term limited legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,183,515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rpc06-05","category-rpc08-04","category-usb14-0301"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 01:32:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}