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PI Standards - Licensed and Unlicensed

Why License / Regulate PIs?

This includes ethics – now part of the DORA
rules – and seen in Rule 5.3 of the Colorado Rules
of Professional Conduct (Responsibilities
Regarding Non-Lawyer Assistants); or…
The ethics requirement for non-attorney
clients ends 08/31/2021
It is recommended continuing in your Standards as protection

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Why License / Regulate PIs?

… Rule 8.4 (Maintaining the Integrity of the
Profession) – specifically part (c) “engage in
conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or
misrepresentation, except that a lawyer may advise,
direct, or supervise others, including clients, law
enforcement officers, or investigators, who
participate in lawful investigative activities” and
the potential conundrum and conflict for PIs.
The ethics requirement for non-attorney
clients ends 08/31/2021
It is recommended continuing in your Standards as protection
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Why License / Regulate PIs?

These are so important to our judicial process,
these have long been codified and doctrines when
the PI is an agent for an attorney – but until 2015,
and now again in 2021 – only with attorney-clients.

If the PI violates these the only recourse is to file a
complaint against the attorney.
If no attorney is involved – no such recourse at all.
The ethics requirement for non-attorney
clients ends 08/31/2021
It is recommended continuing in your Standards as protection

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