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LLLT RPC 8.2
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Rule 8.2 Judicial and Legal Officials
Title 8 Maintaining the Integrity of the Profession
Rule Text
(a) An LLLT shall not make a statement that the LLLT knows to be false or with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity concerning the qualifications, integrity, or record of a judge, adjudicatory officer, or public legal officer, or of a candidate for election or appointment to judicial or legal office.
(b) [Reserved.]
Comment [1] Rule 8.2(a) was adapted from Lawyer RPC 8.2(a) with no substantive changes and applies to LLLTs analogously.
[2] Lawyer Rule 8.2(b) pertains to lawyers who are candidates for judicial office. Judges in the judicial branch of the state of Washington must be lawyers. Accordingly, Rule 8.2(b) does not apply to LLLTs and is reserved.