Categories : Legal Ethics
Touche Pas; “No Contact Rule” Revisited
Twice in six months, the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, reversed San Diego trial courts that disqualified lawyers—or the whole City Attorney’s Office—for violation of Rules of Professional Conduct, former rule 2-100, current rule 4.2, prohibiting communication with a represented party or person without the other lawyer’s consent: the “no contact rule.”