Categories : Legal Ethics
Apples and Oranges: Disqualification and the Rules of Professional Conduct
By David C. Carr
The California Rules of Professional Conduct (Rules) are intended to provide standards for the imposition of professional discipline on lawyers in California (Rule 1.0.1.) But in practice the Rules are applied in other contexts, such as legal malpractice, fee disputes and disqualification of counsel in court, a reality acknowledged by Comment 1 to Rule 1.0.1: