Best Practices from the Ethics Advisory Group
Below is EAG’s collection of recommended Best Practices, organized by Ethical Rule. The guidance provided is advisory only, and non-binding. You may also contact the Ethics Hotline with questions about your own prospective conduct.
Transactions with Persons Other than Clients
ER 4.1 Truthfulness in Statements to Others New!
ER 4.2 Communication with Person Represented by Counsel New!
ER 4.3 Dealing with Unrepresented Person
ER 4.4 Respect for Rights of Others New!
Best Practices
- Preamble
- Client-Lawyer Relationship
- Counselor
- Advocate
- Transactions with Persons Other than Clients
- Law Firms and Associations
- Information about Legal Services
- Maintaining the Integrity of the Profession
- ER 1.1 Competence
- ER 1.2 Scope of Representation
- ER 1.3 Diligence
- ER 1.4 Communication
- ER 1.5 Fees
- ER 1.6 Confidentiality of Information
- ERs 1.7 & 1.10 Conflicts of Interest and Screening Tips
- ER 1.8 Conflict of Interest: Current Clients: Specific Rules
- ER 1.9 Duties to Former Clients
- ER 1.11 Special Conflicts of Interest for Former and Current Government Officers and Employees
- ER 1.13 Organization as Client
- ER 1.14 Client with Diminished Capacity
- ER 1.15 Safekeeping Property
- ER 1.16 Declining or Terminating Representation
- ER 1.18 Duties to Prospective Clients
- ER 2.4 Lawyer Serving as Third-Party Neutral
- ER 3.1 Meritorious Claims and Contentions
- ER 3.3 Candor Toward the Tribunal
- ER 3.4 Fairness to Opposing Party and Counsel
- ER 3.5 Impartiality and Decorum of the Tribunal
- ER 3.6 Trial Publicity
- ER 3.7 Lawyer as Witness
- ER 3.8 Special Responsibilities of a Prosecutor
- ER 3.9 Advocate in Nonadjudicative Proceedings
- ER 3.10 Credible and Material Exculpatory Information about a Convicted Person
- ER 4.1 Truthfulness in Statements to Others
- ER 4.2 Communicating with Person Represented by Counsel
- ER 4.4 Respect for Rights of Others
- ER 5.1 Responsibilities of Lawyers Who Have Ownership Interests or are Managers or Supervisors; ER 5.2 Responsibilities of a Subordinate Lawyer; and ER 5.3 Responsibilities Regarding Nonlawyers
- ER 7.1 Communications Concerning a Lawyer's Services and ER 7.3 Solicitation of New Clients
- ER 8.3 Reporting Professional Misconduct
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