Many lawyers now provide services as a TPN as part of their practices.
It is important that these lawyers be provided some guidance in this growing area. In providing our comment, we take no position on this issue as it involves a variety of considerations that are best examined on an individual state basis. Putting aside the policy issues, the substantive ethical considerations involved in ADR nevertheless are complex . The proposed rules, however, do not appear to draw these distinctions. We believe that the issue of ethical considerations in ADR requires a broader analysis of the issue with the goal of drafting standards that are more comprehensive than the two above-referenced rules.