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SJC Invites Comments on Rule

By Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries

Last February, the Supreme Judicial Court's Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct issued proposed changes to Professional Conduct Rule 1.14, Client with Diminished Capacity. After receiving a number of helpful comments, the committee revised the proposal. "The Committee has also proposed revising the comments to Rule 1.14 to incorporate several comments from the ABA model comments and to address issues raised in Care and Protection of Georgette, 439 Mass. 28 (2003)." They are now opening the revised proposed rule for comment.

You can find the notice "including the proposed revised rule and comments and dissenting statement, and redlined copies of the Committee's proposed revisions to Rule 1.14 indicating how the Committee's proposal differs from American Bar Association Model Rule 1.14 and from current Massachusetts Rule 1.14" at Notice Inviting Comment: Proposed Revisions to Massachusetts Rule of Professional Conduct 1.14.

"Comments should be directed to The Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct, c/o Administrative Attorney Barbara Berenson, Supreme Judicial Court, John Adams Courthouse, One Pemberton Square, Boston MA 02108 on or before Friday, February 15, 2008. Comments may also be sent to: barbara.berenson@sjc.state.ma.us. "

Full post as published by Massachusetts Law Updates on January 31, 2008 (boomark / email).