The Virginia State Bar is in search of suggestions on a proposed addition to skilled guidelines of conduct that will prohibit attorneys from coming into into an settlement to forestall their purchasers from submitting a disciplinary criticism towards them.
The proposed modification would add a paragraph “(f)” below Rule 8.4 and would prohibit a lawyer from making an settlement with a consumer or former consumer limiting the consumer or former consumer’s proper to file or pursue a lawyer disciplinary criticism, in accordance with statement by the bar.
