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Each state regulates lawyers through its Rules of Professional Conduct (also called the Rules of Professional Responsibility in some states). When an attorney violates his state's Rules of Professional Conduct, he is subject to sanctions by the state's disciplinary body.
When filing an ethics complaint against your attorney with your state's disciplinary body, you should first consult the Rules of Professional Conduct in your state and then cite the appropriate rule violation in your complaint.
The American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct are not law, but they play a very influential role in the formation of professional conduct regulations in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The Ethics 2000 Commission, charged with revising the ABA Model Rules, avoided addressing the primary needs and concerns of legal consumers. In a statement before the Commission, HALT spoke out about the abject failure of the proposed rules to require lawyers to provide basic consumer information to prospective clients.
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