Local Rule RULE 83.2: CONDUCT OF ATTORNEYS

RULE 83.2 CONDUCT OF ATTORNEYS

(a) The Court, in furtherance of its inherent power and responsibility to supervise the conduct of attorneys admitted to practice before it, promulgates the following Rules of Disciplinary Enforcement superseding its other rules pertaining to disciplinary enforcement. This Rule and SDIL-LR 83.3 and 83.4 shall apply with equal force to government attorneys appearing before the Court, who are not generally admitted to the district bar or who are admitted pro hac vice (see 28 U.S.C. § 530B(a)).

(1) For misconduct defined in these Rules and for good cause shown, after notice and opportunity to be heard, any attorney admitted to practice before this Court may be disbarred, suspended from practice before this Court, reprimanded, or subjected to other disciplinary action as the circumstances may warrant.

(2) The Rules of Professional Conduct adopted by this Court are the Rules of Professional Conduct established by the Supreme Court of Illinois, as amended from time to time by that Court, except as otherwise provided by specific rule of this Court. Acts or omissions by an attorney admitted to practice before this Court, individually or in concert with any other person or persons, that violate the Court's Rules of Professional Conduct adopted by this Court shall constitute misconduct and shall be grounds for discipline, whether or not the act or omission occurred in the course of an attorney-client relationship.

(3) Whenever an attorney applies to be admitted or is admitted to this Court for purposes of a particular proceeding (pro hac vice), the attorney shall be deemed to have conferred disciplinary jurisdiction upon this Court for any alleged misconduct of that attorney arising in the course of, or in the preparation for, such proceeding.