The American Bar Association House of Delegates approved several amendments to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, including changes to Rule 4.2, which governs communication with a person represented by counsel, and Rule 3.3, which involves a lawyer’s obligation to a tribunal.
The house was continuing its often-heated debate from last summer’s annual meeting in Chicago, in which the Ethics 2000 Commission introduced the first proposed overhaul of the Model Rules since their inception in 1983.
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