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Proposed Recommendations & Policy

The following policy documents are available in PDF format, unless otherwise noted. ()

The following policy recommendation proposed by the Section of Litigation will be considered at the February 15-16, 2009 House of Delegates Meeting in Boston. If you have any comments, please refer to the General Information Form for contact information.

Amendment to Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.10

The Section of Litigation’s Amendment, contained in Report 110, offers a compromise position to Report 109 being offered at Mid-Year by the Steering Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. The Section of Litigation’s proposal seeks to craft a compromise that would permit the screening of lateral moving lawyers to avoid the normal imputation of that lawyer’s conflicts of interest, but only in those situations in which the firm-switching lawyer played no substantial role and has no material confidential information of the lawyer’s former client.

• » Proposed Policy Recommendation
• » Report
• » Executive Summary
• » General Information Form

The following policy recommendation proposed by the Section of Litigation will be considered at the August 11–12, 2008 House of Delegates Meeting in New York. If you have any comments, please refer to the General Information Form for contact information.

Model Act Governing the Representation of Children in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Proceedings

Resolved, That the American Bar Association adopts the ABA Model Act Governing the Representation of Children in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Proceedings, dated August 2008.

• » Proposed Policy Recommendation
• » Report
• » Model Act
• » Executive Summary
• » General Information Form

Standards for Final Pretrial Submissions and Orders

Resolved, That the American Bar Association adopts the black letter of the Standards for Final Pretrial Submissions and Orders for practice in the federal district courts and state trial courts whose procedures generally follow those of the federal courts.

• » Proposed Policy Recommendation
• » Report
• » Standards
• » Executive Summary
• » General Information Form

SEE ALSO: Archive of prior recommendations