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Whose Rules Of Professional Conduct Should Govern Lawyers In Federal Court And How Should The Rules Be Created , Bruce A. Green
Whose Rules Of Professional Conduct Should Govern Lawyers In Federal Court And How Should The Rules Be Created , Bruce A. Green
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At present, the rules of professional conduct applied in federal judicial proceedings vary from district to district. In reaction to this problem, the Judicial Conference of the United States is studying the question of whether a uniform set of rules of professional conduct should apply in federal judicial proceedings and, if so, what the nature of the rules should be and how they should be developed. The principal proposals under consideration are the adoption of a uniform set of federal rules based on the American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct or the adoption of a requirement that each …