PPR

You can't make false or misleading communications about your services.

When it contains a material misrepresentaiton of fact or law, or omits a fact necessary to make the statement not materially misleading.

You may advertise through written, recorded, and electronic communication. You can't give anything of value for someone recommending your services except to pay the costs of advertising or costs of the non-profit referral service. You may also have non exclusive reciprocal referal with other lawyers, as long as you tell your clients about it. You must also put the name and address of the lawyer or law firm responsible for the ad in the ad.

A lawyer can't make in person, live telephone, or realtime electronic contact with a potential client for pecuniary gain unless it's a lawyer, family member, close personal friend, or you had a prior professional relationship with them. You also cannot contact either in person or in writing if the prospective clients has asked you to leave them alone or if you are harassing them. Must also include the term "advertising material" in all your non prohibited solicitations.

Restriction on truthful commercial speech must demonstrate that the government interest is substantial, the regulation directly advances the interest, and the regulation is not more extensive than necessar to serve the interest. (strict scrutiny)

A lawyer may communicate that they do or do not practice in a particular field of law. can't say you're certified unless you're certified by an aba approved org. Must also name the certifying org.

Firm name can't be misleading. Can't claim partnership if you aren't actually partners. Can't use name of lawyer holding public office.

Lawyers shall provide competent representation to clients. Comptent representation is the required legal knoweldege, skill, thoroughness, and preparation reasonably necessary for the represetnation.

A lawyer shall act with reasonable diligence and promptness in representing clients.

A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding unless there is a basis in law and fact that is not frivious, including a good faith argumetn for modification of existing law. Crim law exception: even if there is no merit, can still represent by attempting to disprove elements.

Rule 11 requires everything to be signed (seem familiar, dear?) if you say something false in something you signed then you can be sanctioned

Yes, on the theory of quantum meriut (value of services rendered) California rule says that you can only recover if the client recovered.

• You must withdrawl if representation would violate professional conduct, you are incapacitated or you are fired. You may withdrawl if you can do so without adverse effect on client, the client is acting in a criminal or fradulent manner, they used your services for crime or fraud, their cause is repugnant, it will result in an unreasonable financial burden, or the client fails to fulfill an obligation. Also an other good cause catchall.
• When withdrawing, must protect clients intrests reasonbly.

All lawyers must either give 50 hours of free representation to indigent defendants or donate to access to legal services funds.

Fees must be reasonable.Scope of the representation must be communicated to the client, preferably in writing (congingent must be in writing) Fees can be contingent except where prohibited by law (such as criminal cases, divorce) Fees may only be shared between lawyers in proportion to the work they did (client must also agree to the split)

• Time and Labor
• Novelty and diffuclity
• Skill required
• Precludes other employment
• Customary fee
• Amount involved
• Limits on time
• Nature of relationship
• Experience and reputation
• Fixed or contingent
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Retaining liens mean you hold on to client's property, Charging lien means you have right to charge them if they don't pay.

Must keep clients property held in your feduciary capacity seperate from your own property, cannot comingle. Must hold funds in a bank in your own practice state. Must promptly distribute property and funds that people are entitled to receive. Must keep thorough records, must keep them for 5 years after end of representation

Lawyer must abide by decisions of client concerning objectives of representation. (e.g. settling, taking a plea) Lawyer does not endorse clients views. lawyer may limit scope if resaonable and client consents. Lawyer can't help engage in criminal or fraudlent conduct.

A lawyer should inform the client of anything required of informed consnet, consult with the client about objectives, keep client up to date, comply with requests for information, explain matters to best of abilty, and tell client about ethical restrictions.

A lawyer shall not practice law in a jurisdiction in violation of the regulation of the legal profession or assist another to do so. A laweyr who is not admitted to practice in a jurisdiction shall not establish an office, hold self out to be a lawyer. Lawyers licensed in one state may work with a co-lawyer from another jurisdiction when authorized by law or court order to appear. Can practice in other states as long as you don't appear in court.

Attorney Greviance commission investigates and prosecutes greviences. The attorney discipline board hears the formal charges and passes sentence, with sanctions including reprimands, suspensions, and disbarments. the supreme court of the state may then hear an appeal, but is not required to.

• you can't reveal information related to representation, obtained from any source, unless the client consents, it's impliedly authorized, it will prevent reasonably certain death or substantial bodily harm, prevent a reasonably certain substantial injury to the financial or property interests of others if your services were used, or to rectify any injury to property or finances that the client already used your services for.
• You can also get legal advice , use the information to collect a fee, or comply with other laws.

You can't represent someone if you have confidential information about the person they're opposing from a potential representation. Prospective clients are treated like former clients.

An evidentary privlidge that only arises in litigation, prevents the lawyer from being forced to be reveal any confidences that the client shared with them, either through testimony or subpoena, only applies if the information was only shared between attorney/client with no third party present.

You can't assert attorney client privlidge if your services were used for a crime or fraud.

A lawyer may inspect a crime scene, and that's privlidge. if the lawyer disturbes the scene, though, the privlidge is lost

Physical evdience must be turned over after a reasonable time, as well as documents used to perpetrate the crime (ransom notes, plans, etc)

Any communication made for rendering services to corporate personell relating to employment is privlidge from any person associated with the company.

All communications regarding services are privlidge where th person has managerial responsibilty in the legal problem.

You can't make a false statmetn of fact or law, cant' fail to disclouse controlling legal authority, even if directly adverse, can't officer false evidence or allow false testimony. If client is defrauding court, must take remedial measures, including disclosure. Duty lasts until conclusion of proceeding (final judgement affirmed, aquitted, or time for review passed)

Must disclose all facts, whether adverse or not.

must make efforts to expeditate ligitaiton consistent with clients interests.

You can't obstruct another's access to evidence, have another person do so, can't falsify evidence or testimony, can't put your words into clients mouth, can't disobey obligation to tribunal, can't make frivilous discovery requeists or fail to comply with legally proper discovery requests. Can't refer to irrelevent matters, inadmissible evidence, use personal knowledge or state opinions. Can't ask another party to not testify or share information unless a relative of client and you think their interests will not be adversely effected.

Cant' try to influence judges or jury, can't communicate with them out of court, can't talk to jurors after if court prohobits it, they don't want to talk, or it invovled harassment. Can't disrupt the court.

lawyer can't make extrajudicial stamenets that might prejudice the proceedings, can only state bening facts, public record, procedure, or make warnings. May make statemetns to mitigate prejudice started by other parties. Can't circumvent the rule via a third party.

May not advbocate in matters where you're a witness, unless the issue is uncontested, about your attorney fee, or your disqualification would be a hardship to client. Does not apply to lawyers in your firm unless it owuld be improper conflict of interest.

Can't prosecute unless there's probable cause, must make sure they're advised of rights, can't seek to get waiver from unrepresnted individuals, must disclose excuplatory evidence. cant use subpoena for privlidge information, can't make prejudicial extrajudicial statemnets.

The rules of professional conduct apply to lawyers even in administrative and legislative settings.

Laweyrs shall not make false statemtns to third parties in course of representign a client, or fail to disclose a material fact to avoid assisting a in a crime or fraud.

In represetning a client, you shall not communate about the subject of representiaotn with a person you know is represtend by another lawyer unless you're authoirzed to do so by the other lawyer or the court.

You shall not make unrepresented persons think that you are a disinterested party, you must make reasonable efforts to make sure they know your role in the case.

You shall not use means to embarass, delay or burden third parties or obtain evidence aginst their legal rights, if you get a document you shouldnt' have gotten, you must notify the sender.

Shall not represent a client if representaiton involves a concurrent conflict. A concurrent conflict exists where the representation of one client will be DIRECTLY ADVERSE to another client or there is SIGNIFICANT RISK that the representation of one or more clients will be MATERIALLY LIMITED by the lawyers responsibitlies to another client, former client, third person, or personal interest.

Must be reasonable that the lawyer can represent both clients with equal loyalty, the representation must not be prohibted by law, the concurrent representation can not involve both sides of a claim in the same case, and even if met, the lawyer must still get written, informed consent.

the client must be made aware of relevet circumstances and mateiral and reasonably forseeable ways that the conflict could have adverse effects on their interests.

You shall not enter into a business transaction with a client or knowingly acquire ownerhsip interest adverse to a clinet unless, the terms are fair and reasoanbly in writing, the client is advise in writing do seek outside counsel, and the client gives informed consent in writing. Also can't use client information to their disadvantage. Can't solicit gifts, get literary rights, or provide financial aid to client, or accept 3rd party payment of fees without consent. Can't represent multiple parties in criminal case without consent, can't limit malpractice liability with unrepresented person, get a property interest in ligitgation (other than contingent fee) engage in a sexual relationship, or do anyt of these things if another lawyer in your firm's cilents.

A lawyer who formerly represnted a client shall not represent another person in the same or substantially related matter in which that persons interstr are materially adverse unless there's written, informed consent. Same rule applies when a laywer leaves a firm. Can't use the infromation to disadvantage the former client or reveal information relating to representation.

Can't work in situations where a fellow member of the law firm has a conflict, unless it's based on their perosnal interest. Can be waived. Applies to former governmetn lawyers.

former governmetn attorneys can't represent client in matter in which the lawyer participated personally and substantially unless government agency consents. Lawyer can be screened off and allow new firm to represent that client.

Former judge can't be a lawyer in an issue they had a substnantial and personal participation without informed consent in writing.

A lawyer retained by an organization represetns the organization. lawyer must proceed as reasonably neceesary in teh best interst of hte organization. Must use remedial internal remedies, asking for reconsideration, advisign a seperate legal opinion be obtained, and refer the matter to a higher authority. If all else fails, may reveal information related to the representation to prevent substantial harm.

Must be retiring, relocating, or giving up that area of law. Must sell to lawyers, must sell all cases in one lump. Buyer must be competent, confidnetiality protected, fee can't increase, 90 day notice.

Partner in superviror rume must make efforts to give reasonbable assurances that all lawyers are conforming to rules of professional conduct.

Lawyer is bound by the rules of professional conduct not withstanding the laweyr acted at direct of anotehr person. If ethical violation is debatable, may defer to superor's judgement.

Partner/mamager must make sure measures in effect that give assruance that conduct of non lawyer assistants is compatible with professional oblgigations of lawyer.

Laweyr shall not share fees with non lawyer except for earned attoney fees to estate, purchase price of deceased practice, retirement or profit sharing for employees, non-profit organization. Shall not form partnership with non laweyr if partnership involves law practice. Shall not permit a person to direct lawyers judgemnt , non lawyers can't have a finaincial stake or control of a lawfirm.

Lawyer shall not participat ein offering or making non compete agreement with lawyer.

lawyer is subject to RPC even though they aren't acting as lawyers if the services are related to legal services or the client doesn't know they're non legal services.

You may provide an evaluation of a matter effectin a client for someone other than a client if you reasonably believe that makign the evaluation is compatible with other aspects of your relatinship with the client. Can't do it if it will materally and afversely effect your client without informed consent.

applicant to bar shall not make a false statement of fact, fail to dislcose a necessary fact, or fail to respond to a lawful demand for information.

You shall not make a statement either false or with reckless disregard concerning the intergrity of a judge, judicial officer, or legal officer.

A lawyer who knows anotehr laweyr has commited a violation of the RPC that raises substantial question as to that lawyer's honest, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lweyr in other respects shall inform the approprate professional agency. Same rule for Judges. Don't have to disclose confidential informaiton

Can't violate the rules of professional conduct, commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on laweyr's honest, or engage in dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentiation