{"id":4671,"date":"2004-01-23T09:27:29","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T13:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/01\/23\/mjp-reform-bumpy-road-or-fast"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:00:30","slug":"mjp-reform-bumpy-road-or-fast-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/01\/23\/mjp-reform-bumpy-road-or-fast-track\/","title":{"rendered":"MJP Reform: Bumpy Road or Fast Track?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a578'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">&#8220;x-skier&#8221; . . .<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">An article in the current issue of the <EM>ABA Journal<\/EM> takes a look at the inevitable, uneven and unpredictable&nbsp;state-by-state review that follows any major change in a Model Rule of legal ethics.&nbsp; The ABA adopted&nbsp;<\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.abanet.org\/cpr\/mrpc\/rule_5_5.html\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" color=\"#924547\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>New Model Rule 5.5<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\"><FONT size=\"2\"><STRONG>&nbsp;<\/STRONG> in 2002&nbsp;in the hope that&nbsp;multijurisdictional practice would be easier to accomplish and would take place under more uniform rules across the nation.&nbsp;&nbsp; (See our <\/FONT><\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/01\/20#a561\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">posting<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> earlier this week, discussing rejection of&nbsp;changes to&nbsp;Rule 5.5 by the Connecticut Bar Association, which has links to ABA MJP resources.)<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Because rules of professional conduct come under the authority of each licensing jurisdiction, Model Rules are only advisory, and each state must decide whether to ignore or adopt them &#8212; and\/or adapt them to their own needs and internal pressures.&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The Journal article notes that &#8220;In the 17 months since the ABA amended the Model Rules to ease restrictions against multijurisdictional practice, six states&#x2014;Colorado, Delaware, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina and South Dakota&#x2014;have enacted new rules that lower the barriers against temporary practice by out-of-state lawyers. . . . By late 2003, proposals to revise MJP rules were pending in at least 13 other jurisdictions.&#8221;<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT size=\"2\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">Nonetheless,&nbsp;Wayne J. Positan, the Roseland, N.J., lawyer who chaired the ABA<\/FONT> Commission on Multijurisdictional Practice, &#8220;cautions that the entire review process could take up to 20 years.&#8221;&nbsp; And:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><EM><FONT size=\"2\">An even greater concern for proponents of easing rules on multijurisdictional practice, however, is that the states will not agree on uniform rules, leaving a patchwork of regulations imposing varying requirements on lawyers who seek to practice temporarily in outside jurisdictions.<\/FONT><\/EM><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\"><FONT size=\"2\">There are apparently no clear trends yet, but the article takes a look at many of the variations that&nbsp;have already cropped&nbsp;up.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;x-skier&#8221; . . . 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