Is promoting diversity and inclusion within the legal profession an ethical responsibility for all lawyers? At least one advocacy group believes that it is, and has asked the American Bar Association to make a rule to that effect.
The Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession this month sent a letter to ABA president Laurel Bellows asking the organization to amend its Model Rules of Professional Conduct, which lay out the ethical and professional standards for all lawyers in the United States, to declare that lawyers have an obligation to promote diversity and inclusion.
