The Tennessee Supreme Court Apr. 23 rejected a proposed revision to the rules of professional conduct that would have prohibited lawyers from engaging in harassing and discriminatory behavior.
This is the second time in five years the Supreme Court has rejected similar proposals.
The Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility and the Tennessee Bar Association filed a joint petition in November 2017 seeking to amend the Tennessee Rules of Professional Conduct to include a new subsection (g) within the misconduct rule, Rule 8.4.
The proposal would have incorporated Rule 8.4(g) to the ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct, which was ...
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