A proposal to strengthen an anti-discrimination rule in Texas’ attorney disciplinary code may not go anywhere, but an alternative would add similar language to an aspirational creed for lawyers.

At a bar board of directors meeting Friday, board members heard updates to a collection of diversity and inclusion proposals that arose from the fiasco last summer when president Larry McDougal made online comments about Black Lives Matter that offended many Texas lawyers. One of the ideas was that a Texas disciplinary rule that prohibits lawyers from discriminating against others in court proceedings should be broadened to apply to a lawyer’s whole law practice.