By the time you read this, the Judicial Branch’s Rules Committee may have considered some very interesting and, I believe, good amendments to the Practice Book. The panel met May 21 to consider a mixed bag of things. Among them are several that I have been tracking for some time due to my interest in all things related to lawyering.
One is the adoption of Model Rule 1.10′s "screening" mechanism concerning lawyers who move from firm to firm. While Connecticut courts have recognized screening, and its less politically correct precedent, the "Chinese Wall" for some time, our judges did not adopt this part of the model rule in 2006 when we embraced much of the Ethics 2000 proposal of the ABA.
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