www.EvergreenEthics.com/E2K/ ABA Model Rules and Ethics 2000 Comm'n Materials:Selected information for persons considering their state's adoption of the
ABA Ethics 2000 Commission ("E2K") proposed changes to the
ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct
(including certain provisions rejected in 2001 but adopted in 2003 by the ABA House of Delegates).
Current ABA Model Rules of Prof. Conduct (MRPC) Cornell website with pre-E2K and current MRPC 1969 ABA Code of PR
Primary ABA website re implementation of E2K and other changes to MRPC
Ethics 2000 Comm'n website with text, articles, minutes, etc.
Ethics 2000 detailed report, rule-by-rule.Conference of Chief Justices; Jurists:
CCJ Resolution (August 1, 2002) urging ABA to adopt E2K's MR 1.6(b)(2) and (b)(3).
Delaware Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey re MR 1.6 in The Bencher (Nov/Dec 2002)
American Inns of Court President-Del. Justice Randy J. Holland in The Bencher (Nov/Dec 2002)Sarbanes-Oxley Act and SEC rules for lawyers representing public companies:
Supplemental Information on Rule 1.6: Confidentiality of Information:
Compilation of relevant links and posted materials.
Compilation of Historic Lawyer "Ethics" Rules on Acting to Prevent/Rectify Client Crime/Fraud
Compilation of 32 states' Rectify Fraud portions of their Rule 1.6 or equivalent rule, with links.
Compiled extracts of all Ethics 2000 meeting minutes passages addressing Rule 1.6.
Collection of preliminary drafts of Rule 1.6 by Ethics 2000, as discussed at their meetings.
Extract from Final Report released 4/29/2003 by the ABA Task Force on Corporate Responsibility urging ABA to adopt E2K's proposed MR 1.6(b)(2)(disclosures to prevent fraud/crime) and (b)(3)(disclosures to rectify past fraud/crime), which it did adopt.
Explanatory article by Prof. Hamermesh, Chief Reporter to the ABA Task Force on Corp. Responsibility
Argument to replace "reasonably certain" with "likely" in E2K's proposed Rule 1.6(b)(2)&(3).
Washington State Issues
Text of WA new RPC as adopted by Wash. St. Supreme Court on July 10, 2006.
New WA RPCs showing changes from the pre-existing WA RPCs, on the Court's website. (a 289-page MS Word doc)
Wash. State Bar Assoc. (WSBA) "Ethics 2003 Committee" website, with its materials and recommendations.
Wash. State Supreme Court invited public comments, by 4/29/2005, on the WSBA proposed revised RPCs.
Table of Comments (with links to all the comments) submitted re WSBA's proposed changes to WA-RPCs
Redline mark-up in PDF format (147 pages) comparing the WSBA proposal to the ABA Model RPCs
Comment Letter submitted to Wash. St. Supreme Court (WSSC) by Doug Schafer on 4/29/2005.
Comment Letter submitted to WSSC by U. of Wash. Law Profs. John Price, Karen Boxx, Tom Andrews & Rob Aronson.
Comment Letter submitted to WSSC by U. of Wash. Law Prof. Tom Andrews.
Comment Letter submitted to WSSC by former WSBA chief disciplinary counsel Barrie Althoff.
1985 Comment Letter by UW Law Prof. Rob Aronson urging WSSC not to abandon the rectify-fraud exception to confidentiality.
[This website changes frequently. Submissions welcome. Doug Schafer.]