Standing Committee on Professional Conduct

The mission of the Standing Committee on Professional Conduct is

• To review the Rules of Professional Conduct to assure that its provisions adequately address matters of professional conduct and, when deemed necessary, to recommend proposed amendments to the Rules.
• In the committee's discretion, to prepare written advisory opinions on professional conduct in response to inquiries or comments from members relating to professional conduct, provided no such advisory opinion be published as an opinion of the Association until it has been approved by the Association President and/or the Board of Governors.

Consists of a chair, vice-chair, secretary and 15 additional members. A quorum of this committee shall be one-third of the active members.

Resources & Opportunities

• Search ISBA Advisory Opinions on Professional Conduct
• Read the 2010 Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct
• The ARDC has provided a red-line version of the new Rules, as amended.  Click on the individual rule, and at the top of the page there’s an icon that leads you to the red-line version.

• Visit the ISBA’s Practice Resource Center
• Others need your expertise!  Become an ISBA Mentor
• Don’t forget your MCLE and PMCLE requirements. ISBA can help. We have courses in a broad range of practice areas
• Visit the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility
• Illinois Courts homepage
• Illinois Supreme Court Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission

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