There is a movement throughout the United States to amend rules of professional conduct to include provisions that prohibit harassment or discrimination in conduct related to the practice of law. The movement is in response to what many observers have termed endemic harassment and discrimination within the legal community. The prevalence of inappropriate conduct was highlighted in Pennsylvania by the disclosure of the use of Pennsylvania government servers to send lewd and offensive email.
The efforts to amend rules of professional conduct came to a head this August when the American Bar Association adopted a new Model Rule 8.4(g). The ABA model rule now reads:
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