The Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued new rules regulating the conduct of attorneys practicing before it. The SEC has also proposed a new rule — open for a 60-day comment period — that would create an 8-K public reporting requirement by the board of directors, to be triggered by a lawyer’s mandatory withdrawal from the representation in the event of uncorrected client actions.
The American Corporate Counsel Association has posted an executive summary providing an overview of the rule and the alternative proposal at www.acca.com/legres/ corpresponsibility/307/summary.pdf. (The SEC’s final and proposed rules can be found at www.sec.gov/rules/final/33-8185.htmand at www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/33-8186.htm.)
