In our July 6, 2015 column, “Amendments to Rules of Professional Conduct Are Mixed Bag,” we commented on the recommended changes to several of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct (RPCs), proposed by the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Standards and Attorney Conduct (COSAC), including various changes to the comments that expand upon and interpret those rules. In March 2015, the state bar’s House of Delegates adopted COSAC’s recommendations. On Nov. 10, 2016, the Appellate Divisions adopted the substantive changes to the RPCs.
Because of the significance of changes to the RPCs to every practitioner, we summarize them again here now that they have been adopted. The Comments have historically not been adopted by the courts, and are merely the advisory interpretations of the state bar. The majority of the proposed amended comments took effect in March 2015. Accordingly, this article reviews only those changes that directly relate to the substance of the revised RPCs.
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