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Rules: 4-1.5; 4-1.8; 4-1.15
Information About Legal Services
Fees; Conflict of Interest: Prohibited Transactions; Trust Accounts and Property of Others
Subject: Fees - Generally; Trust Accounts and Safekeeping Property
Summary: lawyer may accept cryptocurrency payment only for earned fees that are not to be placed in client trust account
Rules: 4-7.3
Information About Legal Services
Direct Contact with Prospective Clients
Subject: Advertising and Solicition; Reporting Misconduct of Another Lawyer
Summary: SSM messages, or similar text messages, prohibited for solicitation pursuant to Rule 4-7.3
Rules: 4-8.3
Maintaining the Integrity of the Profession
Reporting Professional Misconduct
Subject: Misconduct - Generally; Reporting Misconduct of Another Lawyer
Summary: timing of report to the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel of misconduct of another lawyer
Rules: 4-1.22; 4-1.0
Client-Lawyer Relationship
Retaining Client Files
Subject: Client Files; Retirement (see also Inactive Status or Of Counsel)
Summary: handling client files upon retirement; handling client files upon leaving the practice of law
Rules: 4-8.5
Maintaining the Integrity of the Profession
Disciplinary Authority; Choice of Law
Subject: Choice of Law
Summary: lawyer should consider choice of law when practicing pro hac vice in another jurisdiction
Rules: 4-5.5
Law Firms and Associations
Unauthorized Practice of Law; Multijurisdictional Practice of Law
Subject: Retirement (see also Inactive Status or Of Counsel);
Summary: retiring lawyer winding up practice from another state
Rules: 4-1.1, 4-1.6, 4-3.3, 4-3.4, 4-5.1, 4-5.3, 4-5.4
Client-Lawyer Relationship; Advocate; Law Firm and Associations
Competence; Confidentiality of Information; Candor Toward the Tribunal; Duties to Opposing Party and Counsel and Ethical Obligations to Follow Court Orders and Rules; Responsibilities of Partners, Managers, and Supervisory Lawyers; Responsibilities Regarding Nonlawyer Assistants
Subject: Candor to the Court or Tribunal; Competence; Confidentiality; Supervision of Nonlawyers
Summary: lawyer’s use of generative artificial intelligence (AI)
Rules: 4-1.0; 4-1.6; 4-8.3; Court Operating Rule 2.02
Client-Lawyer Relationship; Maintaining the Integrity of the Profession
Terminology; Confidentiality of Information; Reporting Professional Misconduct
Subject: Confidentiality; Misconduct - Generally; Redaction; Reporting Misconduct of Another Lawyer
Summary: redaction requirements and duty to report professional misconduct
Rules: 4-1.1, 4-1.4, 4-1.6, 4-3.4, 4-5.3; Court Operating Rule 2.02
Client-Lawyer Relationship; Advocate; Transactions with Persons Other Than Clients; Law Firms and Associations
Competence; Communication with Client; Confidentiality of Information; Meritorious Claims and Contentions; Supervision of Nonlawyer Assistants
Subject: Competence; Meritorious Claims or Contentions; Redaction; Supervision of Nonlawyers
Summary: competence and supervision issued related to redaction requirements
Rules: 4-3.1, 4-3.4, 4-4.4; Court Operating Rule 2.02
Advocate; Transactions with Persons Other Than Clients
Meritorious Claims and Contentions; Duties to Opposing Party and Counsel and Ethical Obligation to Follow Court Orders and Rules; Respect for Rights of Third Persons
Subject: Misconduct - Conduct Prejudicial to the Administration of Justice; Redaction; Respect for Rights of Third Persons
Summary: redaction by lawyer when meritorious claim or contention information is subject to redaction requirements