Welcome to the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 web site. ABA President Carolyn B. Lamm created the Ethics 20/20 Commission to perform a thorough review of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the U.S. system of lawyer regulation in the context of advances in technology and global legal practice developments. Our challenge over the next several years is to study these issues and, with 20/20 vision, propose policy recommendations that will allow lawyers to better serve their clients, the courts and the public now and well into the future. We look forward to engaging in this exciting, challenging, and important undertaking. Read More...

Update:

ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 Preliminary Issues Outline
Please Provide Comments By: December 31, 2009

We are pleased to provide for your review and comment the Commissions’ Preliminary Issues Outline. The Commission expects that the number and nature of subjects in the Outline will change as its work progresses and comments are received. Particular phraseology and the order in which subjects are listed are not intended to connote any prioritization of or Commission position on issues, nor is consideration of other topics omitted intended to be foreclosed.

We would appreciate receiving comments via e-mail at ethics2020@staff.abanet.org by December 31, 2009. The Commission will post on its website all written comments received. Please advise us if you request that your submission be posted without attribution. The Commission will consider comments at its February 4, 2010 meeting in Orlando, Florida.

If you have any questions about the Outline or the Commission’s work, please contact Commission Counsel Ellyn S. Rosen at rosene@staff.abanet.org.