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Article: ABA Reverses Course: Lawyer's Group Passes Anti-Pay-to-Play Rule.(Brief Article)
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- The Bond Buyer
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- February 15, 2000
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DALLAS -
After an intense four-year battle that pitted some the nation's most prominent lawyers against one another, the American Bar Association's House of Delegates voted 266 to 157 yesterday to adopt a new ethics rule that is aimed at preventing lawyers from engaging in pay-to-play practices to obtain government legal engagements or judicial appointments.
The vote came after proponents mounted a massive campaign to obtain support for the rule, speaking to numerous state delegations and association sections and lining up Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt and ABA leaders to speak in favor of the rule at the delegates' mid-year ...
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