The state Supreme Court has revised some of the proposed changes to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct that gave lawyers the most heartburn.
Some lawyers had been upset that a proposed rule could allow third parties to hold up the distribution of clients’ settlement funds and turn lawyers into bill collectors. Others were concerned that the proposed rules failed to define “conflict of interest” thereby putting lawyers at risk of being sanctioned.
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