While voicing concerns, some also point out that MDP would increase the availability of legal services and would encourage lawyers to reconfigure their practices to help clients in resolving problems that are entwined with various areas say engineering and accounting. Colorado should allow MDPs, input from those in other professions that might be touched and input from consumers of legal serv- ices. The task force will be studying the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct and other rules that govern attorneys conduct to pinpoint changes if MDP is permitted in Colorado. It s critically important that Colorado lawyers voice their opinions. These boards may, in turn, vote on the recommendations and give guidance to our ABA House of Delegates reps for the July ABA meeting.
Some people see our legal system as antiquated, with state by state discipline, for instance.
We already have lawyers practicing in multiple jurisdictions. What you can t do here, in some cases you can do in some other state, or vice versa. MDP debates set the stage for examining some of the larger issues for example, whether global practice of law is really ever going to occur.