Categories : Law Practice Legal Ethics
Reviewing Rule 4.2’s “No Contact” Rule Prohibiting Communication with a Represented Person Without that Person’s Lawyer’s Consent
By Richard D. Hendlin
This Ethics in Brief will focus on the venerable “no contact” rule set forth in California Rules of Professional Conduct [CRPC] Rule 4.2 which had its origin in the first rules promulgated in 1928.[i]