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The Discipline Committee is the entity in the ABA responsible for “developing, promoting, coordinating, and strengthening professional disciplinary and regulatory programs and procedures throughout the nation, including developing and promoting ABA activities relating to professional discipline, model rules for disciplinary enforcement and standards for the imposition of sanctions.”

The Committee works to encourage, recommend and provide assistance to ABA entities in the development and coordination of professionalism initiatives; and to encourage and provide assistance to state and local bar associations, the judiciary, the law schools, and the legal community.

Created by then ABA President Carolyn B. Lamm in 2009, the Commission performed a thorough review of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the U.S. system of lawyer regulation in the context of advances in technology and global legal practice developments.

The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism promotes a culture of civility and inclusion, in which Illinois lawyers and judges embody the ideals of the legal profession in service to the administration of justice in a democratic society

Book, authored by Katerina P. Lewinbuk