Comments

Comments Received

• All comments received to date (Listed Alphabetically)
• All comments received to date (Listed by Issue)
  

Comments Sought

The Commission continues to welcome comments. Please email us your comments, and be sure to specify the topic, issue paper or discussion draft you wish to comment upon.

Items released for comment by Ethics 20/20 Commission:

Inbound Foreign Lawyers

• Inbound Foreign Lawyer Memoranda & Template (released June 1, 2010)

• Admission on Motion Issues Paper (released December 2, 2010)

• Initial Draft Proposal In-House Counsel (released May 2, 2011)

• Initial Draft Proposal Model Rule 5.5 (released May 2, 2011)

• Initial Draft Proposal Pro Hac Vice (released May 2, 2011)

• Admission on Motion Initial Draft Proposal (released September 7, 2011)

• Revised Draft Proposal In-House Counsel (released September 19, 2011)

• Revised Draft Proposal Pro Hac Vice (released September 19, 2011)

• Revised Draft Proposal Model Rule 5.5 (released September 19, 2011)

• Final Revised Draft Proposal on Admission by Motion (released February 21, 2012)
  

Technology

• Issues Paper Concerning Client Confidentiality and Lawyers’ Use of Technology (released September 20, 2010)

• Issues Paper Concerning Lawyers’ Use of Internet Based Client Development Tools (released September 20, 2010)

• Initial Draft Proposal Tech & Confidentiality (released May 2, 2011)

• Initial Draft Proposal Tech & Client Development (released June 28, 2011)

• Revised Draft Proposal Tech & Confidentiality (released September 19, 2011)

• Revised Draft Proposal Tech & Client Development (released September 19, 2011)

• Final Revised Draft Proposal Technology & Confidentiality (released February 21, 2012)

• Final Revised Draft Proposal Technology & Client Development (released February 21, 2012)

Outsourcing

• Outsourcing Discussion Draft (released November 23, 2010)

• Initial Draft Proposal on Outsourcing (released May 2, 2011)

• Revised Draft Proposal on Outsourcing (released September 19, 2011)

• Final Revised Draft Proposal on Outsourcing (released February 21, 2012)

Uniformity/Choice of Law

• Issues Paper Choice of Law in Cross Border Practice (released January 18, 2011)

• Multijurisdictional Practice Issues Paper (released March 29, 2011)

• Initial Draft Proposal 1.6 (released September 7, 2011)

• Initial Draft Proposal 1.7 (released September 7, 2011)

• Initial Draft Proposal 5.5(d)(3) (released September 7, 2011)

• Initial Draft Proposal Choice of Law and ALPS (released December 2, 2011)

• Discussion Paper on Alternative Law Practice Structures (released December 2, 2011)

• ABA Model Rule 5.5 and Practice Pending Admission (released February 21, 2012)
  
• Revised Draft Proposal on ABA Model Rule 1.6 (released February 21, 2012)
  
• Issues Paper Concerning Model Rule of Professional Conduct 5.5 and the Limits of Virtual Presence in a Jurisdiction (released June 19, 2012)
  
• Revised Draft Proposal on ABA Model Rule 1.7: Choice of Rule Agreements for Conflicts of Interest (released July 11, 2012)

Alternative Law Practice Structures

• ABS Issues Paper (released on April 5, 2011)
• ALPS Discussion Draft (released on December 2, 2011)
• Choice of Law & Alternative Law Practice Structures (released on December 2, 2011)
• Commission Co-Chairs' Statement (released April 16, 2012)
  

Alternative Litigation Financing

• ALF Issues Paper (released on November 23, 2010)
• Draft ALF White Paper (released on October 19, 2011
• White Paper on ALF filed with House of Delegates (released on December 27, 2011)

Comments on Preliminary Issues Outline

• AVVO, Inc.- submitted by Joshua King, Vice President, Business Development & General Counsel
• ABA Standing Committee on Client Protection- submitted by Hon. Daniel J. Crothers, Chair
  
• Robert Cummins, Chicago, IL 
  
• ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility- submitted by Robert H. Mundheim, Chair 
  
• Federal Bar Association, Office of the President- submitted by Lawrence R. Baca, National President 
  
• Vercell Fiffie 
  
• Dianna Gould-Saltman, Los Angeles, CA 
  
• Melvin Hirshman, Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission 
  
• ABA Section of International Law- submitted by Glenn P. Hendrix, Chair 
  
• Leslie W. Jacobs, Cleveland, OH 
• Legal Marketing Association- submitted by Nathan Darling, President & Betsi Roach, Executive Director
  
• ABA Section of Litigation- submitted by Andrew S. Pollis, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center Case Western Reserve University School of Law, et. al. 
  
• National Conference of Bar Examiners- submitted by Erica Moeser, President
  
• A Pennsylvania Lawyer
  
• Gerald F. Phillips, Los Angeles, California  
  
• ABA Section of Public Contract Law- submitted by Karen L. Manos, Chair 
  
• ABA State and Local Government Law Section – submitted by Michael P. Donaldson