The Washington Supreme Court has adopted significant revisions to the Rules of Professional Conduct, effective September 1. The new rules are available on the Court's Web site at http://www. courts.wa.gov/court_rules/?fa=court_rules.adopted (scroll down to the bottom of the page). There is an article on the WSBA Web site highlighting the most important changes to the rules: http://www.wsba. org/lawyers/groups/ethics2003/rpcarticle0706.pdf. An article on the rule changes also was published in the December 2005 issue of the Bar Bulletin.
The amendments, proposed by the WSBA Board of Governors in October 2004, were based on recommendations submitted to the Board of Governors by the WSBA Special Committee for the Evaluation of the Rules of Professional Conduct (Ethics 2003 Committee), chaired by Ellen Conedera Dial. In adopting the amendments, the Supreme Court modified the proposed rules in a number of instances.
