The Supreme Court of Texas is considering proposed amendments to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct. Approval of Proposed Amendments to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, No. 09-9175 (Tex. Oct. 20, 2009).
The text of the proposed rules and a redlined version may be downloaded here (PDF).
This link may be used to verify citations to the Rules in TexasBarBooks publications, and attorneys should monitor this Web site for a final decision on the amendments.
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The proposed amendments are extremely broad in scope. I hope that all lawyers will spend the time necessary to become familiar with them so that if the amendments are approved we will not see the same increase in disciplinary sanctions that we saw after the 1990 rule changes. I will be periodically publishing additional comments on some of the highlights of the proposed amendments. Those comments will be available at:
http://www.cllegal.com/legalethics.html