ABA Rule 8.4
Professional Responsibility & Legal Education and Free Speech & Election Law Practice Groups Teleforum
Professor Eugene Volokh of the UCLA School of Law will be joining us Monday, December 12 to discuss the ABA’s new Rule 8.4 on professional misconduct. The Rule states that it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to “engage in conduct that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know is harassment or discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or socioeconomic status in conduct related to the practice of law.” The ABA goes further in Comments, stating that “Such discrimination includes harmful verbal or physical conduct that manifests bias or prejudice towards others,” and that the Rule applies in any situation, even social, that is “connected to the practice of law.”
Professor Volokh will discuss the First Amendment implications and reaction to the new rule.
Featuring:
- Professor Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Professor Eugene Volokh of the UCLA School of Law will be joining us Monday, December 12 to discuss the ABA’s new Rule 8.4 on professional misconduct. The Rule states that it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to “engage in conduct that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know is harassment or discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or socioeconomic status in conduct related to the practice of law.” The ABA goes further in Comments, stating that “Such discrimination includes harmful verbal or physical conduct that manifests bias or prejudice towards others,” and that the Rule applies in any situation, even social, that is “connected to the practice of law.”
Professor Volokh will discuss the First Amendment implications and reaction to the new rule.
Featuring:
- Professor Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Call begins at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
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