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Editor’s note: The American Bar Association resolution discussed in this column was amended August 3 to only prohibit conduct that a lawyer “knows or reasonably should know” is harassment or discrimination. The ABA’s House of Delegates approved the amended resolution August 8.

The American Bar Association is on the verge of making ­sweeping changes in its Model Rules of Professional Conduct, rules in no way designed to regulate professional ethics, but rather to compel lawyers to embrace social justice to make them “better people.” (As this article went to press, the outcome of the vote by the ABA House of Delegates at its annual meeting in San Francisco was still in doubt.)