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The Anti-Contact Rule Gets a Facelift
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As Alice Mosley related, the rule prohibits knowingly communicating with a person about a subject matter of the representation without the permission of the represented person’s lawyer. With the exception of “person” being replaced by “party,” the wording remained the same. As the assistant executive director of the North Carolina State Bar proposed, though, changing one word of Paragraph (a) of Revised Rule 4.2 can change the tenor of the sentence. The author suggested that this leaves the interpretation and application of the rule open to debate.
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