Model Rules of Professional Conduct: Table of Contents with links to the rules

The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct were adopted by the ABA House of Delegates in 1983. They serve as models for the ethics rules of most jurisdictions. Before the adoption of …

Client-Lawyer Relationship - A lawyer shall provide competent representation to a client. Competent representation requires the legal knowledge, skill, thoroughness and preparation …

Working Group on MRPC 5.5 Releases Issues Paper. Working Group on MRPC Rule 5.5 releases Issues Paper on cross-border practice. Learn more and read comments here.

Transactions With Persons Other Than Clients | In the course of representing a client a lawyer shall not knowingly: (a) make a false statement of material fact or law to a third person; or (b) …

(b) The scope of the representation and the basis or rate of the fee and expenses for which the client will be responsible shall be communicated to the client, preferably in writing, before or …

Client-Lawyer Relationship (a) A lawyer shall not reveal information relating to the representation of a client unless the client gives informed consent, the disclosure is impliedly authorized in …

A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous, which includes a good faith …

Rule 1.2 Client-Lawyer Relationship | (a) Subject to paragraphs (c) and (d), a lawyer shall abide by a client's decisions concerning the objectives of representation and, as required by Rule …

The following materials show how each jurisdiction has modified each of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Preamble; Scope; Model Rule 1.0 - Terminology