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Last Chance to Comment on ABA Ethics 20/20 Draft Proposals

By Roy Simon

In 2009, the ABA created the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, which has been comprehensively reviewing the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (and other regulations affecting lawyers) in light of globalization and changes in information technology. Like the ABA Ethics 2000 Commission a decade ago, the Ethics 20/20 Commission is likely to have substantial influence on the future of lawyer regulation in the United States. And now that New York has adopted the numbering, the format, and much of the language of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the work of the Ethics 20/20 Commission is far more relevant to New York lawyers than it would have been a few years ago.

Consequently, the immediate Past President of the New York State Bar Association (Steve Younger) urged the State Bar’s Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct to get involved in the work of the Ethics 20/20 Commission early on, and the current State Bar President (Vince Doyle) has continued that interest. Many of the proposals are close to final, but there is still time to comment. The deadline for sending comments on the most recent proposals is November 30, 2011.

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