Many folks do not know that our rules of professional conduct do not mirror the American Bar Association model rules in some important respects. For instance, model Rule 1.15 is four paragraphs long. Our rule is over 25 pages long. Model Rule 1.6 permits disclosure of client confidences to prevent serious physical harm to another. Our rule mandates it. Our Rule 3.7 contains a prohibition on threatening criminal action to gain an advantage in civil litigation. The model rule has no such provision.
Of course, the Rules of Professional Conduct are not the only ways our rule system differs from model regimes. Most law students learn evidence using the federal rules of evidence. But in Connecticut we have our own code of evidence, and we have jurisprudence to suggest that even the code is not the final source of authority on evidentiary matters, as the supreme court can announce evidentiary rules that differ.
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