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Examples of Regulatory Objectives for the Legal Profession (Updated March 2, 2019)
Originally prepared for APRL 2019 Midyear Meeting; regularly updated (2019)
  • Laurel S. Terry
Description
This short document contains several examples of regulatory objectives:

1) the regulatory objectives adopted by the Supreme Courts of Colorado, Illinois, and Washington;

2) the regulatory objectives adopted by the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society in 2014 and updated in 2016;

3) the regulatory objectives that Laurel Terry, Steve Mark, and Tahlia Gordon recommended in this lengthy 2012 article with many examples, which were summarized in this 9-page Terry article and these slides

4) the regulatory objectives the ABA adopted in February 2016; and

5) the regulatory objectives found in Section 1 of the UK's Legal Services Act 2007.

This document also contains the two appendices from the 2012 Terry-Mark-Gordon Fordham Law Review article:
APPENDIX 1: Comparing our Recommended Objectives with Existing and Draft Regulatory Objectives and APPENDIX 2: Existing and Draft Regulatory Objectives. (It also contains a link to the 9 page Professional Lawyer "Bandwagon" article on this topic).

This "Examples of Regulatory Objectives for the Legal Profession" document was originally prepared for the Jan. 2019 Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers' Midyear Conference in Las Vegas, but has been subsequently updated. If you are aware of additional examples of U.S. regulatory objectives, please email them to Laurel Terry at LTerry@psu.edu.

Keywords
  • regulatory objectives,
  • Nova Scotia Barristers' Society,
  • 2007 UK Legal Services Act,
  • ABA Resolution 105,
  • Colorado regulatory objectives,
  • Washington regulatory objectives,
  • Terry-Gordon-Mark regulatory objectives
Publication Date
2019
Citation Information
Laurel S. Terry, Examples of Regulatory Objectives for the Legal Profession (2019), https://works.bepress.com/laurel_terry/89/.