Proposed Mandatory Reporting Rule Targets Lawyers' Criminal Acts
California-licensed lawyers would be required to report colleagues who have committed criminal acts under a proposed rule advanced Friday by the state bar’s Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. The draft Rule of Professional Conduct 8.3 says a reporting lawyer must have “personal knowledge” of a fellow lawyer’s wrongdoing based on a “firsthand observation” of the act “gained through the lawyer’s own senses” before reporting that conduct to the bar.
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