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13-2411.  Rules of Professional Conduct.

The Rules of Professional Conduct provide guidance to lawyers.  Evidence regarding the Rules of Professional Conduct may be considered in deciding whether ____________ (name of defendant) owed _____________ (name of plaintiff) a duty and whether _____________ (name of defendant) breached a duty.  However, that evidence is not conclusive.  You must consider all of the evidence that you have heard in deciding the questions of duty and breach. 

 

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This instruction must be given in a legal malpractice case in which the court admits evidence regarding the Rules of Professional Conduct.

[Adopted by Supreme Court Order No.17-8300-013, effective for all cases pending or filed on or after December 31, 2017.]

 You are being directed to the most recent version of the statute which may not be the version considered at the time of the judgment.