Reporter's Explanation of Changes
TEXT:
Paragraph (e): Add material deleted from Rule 7.1
Rule 7.1 currently provides that a lawyer may not make a false or misleading communication about the lawyer or the lawyer's services and, further, that a communication is false or misleading, inter alia, if it "states or implies that the lawyer can achieve results by means that violate the Rules of Professional Conduct or other law." The Commission recommends that this prohibition be moved out of Rule 7.1 and added to paragraph (e) in order to clarify that the prohibition is not limited to statements made in connection with marketing legal services.
COMMENT:
[1] The purpose of this new Comment is to explain when a lawyer is subject to discipline for violating or attempting to violate the Rules "through the acts of another" and to distinguish such conduct from advising a client concerning action the client is lawfully entitled to take.