{"id":2407,"date":"2020-12-03T08:56:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T15:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2021-04-26T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T18:06:38","slug":"rules-of-professional-conduct-comment-period-closes-january-17-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/2020\/12\/03\/rules-of-professional-conduct-comment-period-closes-january-17-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules of Professional Conduct &#8211; Comment Period Closed January 17, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Proposed changes merge the attorney Rules of Professional Conduct and the LPP Rules of Professional Conduct into one set of rules. Currently, there are two nearly identical sets of Rules of Professional Conduct for each type of licensee. One set of rules is more efficient and makes changes and updates to the rules simpler and more uniform.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2020\/12\/Redline-RPC-Prelim-Note.pdf\">Preliminary Notes <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2020\/12\/Redline-RPC-1.0.pdf\">RPC01.00.<\/a> Terminology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2020\/12\/Redline-RPC-1.1.pdf\">RPC01.01.<\/a> Competence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2020\/12\/Redline-RPC-1.2.pdf\">RPC01.02.<\/a> Scope of representation and allocation of authority between client and lawyer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2020\/12\/Redline-RPC-1.5.pdf\">RPC01.05.<\/a> Fees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2020\/12\/Redline-RPC-4.2.pdf\">RPC04.02.<\/a> Communication with persons represented by legal professionals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2020\/12\/Redline-RPC-6.1.pdf\">RPC06.01.<\/a> Voluntary pro bono legal service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed changes merge the attorney Rules of Professional Conduct and the LPP Rules of Professional Conduct into one set of rules. Currently, there are two nearly identical sets of Rules of Professional Conduct for each type of licensee. One set of rules is more efficient and makes changes and updates to the rules simpler and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[630,127,658,128,129,132,160,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rules-of-professional-conduct","category-rpc-terminology","category-rpc01-00","category-rpc01-01","category-rpc01-02","category-rpc01-05","category-rpc04-02","category-rpc06-01"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 01:32:34","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\/2407","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=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}