ELC 3.1
      OPEN MEETINGS AND PUBLIC DISCIPLINARY INFORMATION


(a) Open Meetings.  Disciplinary hearings and meetings of
the Board are public.  Except as otherwise provided in these
rules, Supreme Court proceedings are public to the same
extent as other Supreme Court proceedings.  Deliberations of
a hearing officer or panel, board, review committee, or
court, and matters made confidential by a protective order,
or by other provisions of these rules, are not public.

(b) Public Disciplinary Information.  The public has access
to the following information subject to these rules:

  (1)  the record before a review committee and the
     order of the review committee in any matter that a
     review committee has ordered to hearing or ordered an
     admonition be issued;

  (2)  the record upon distribution to a review
     committee or to the Supreme Court in proceedings based
     on a conviction of a felony or serious crime, as
     defined in rule 7.1(a);

  (3)  the record upon distribution to a review
     committee or to the Supreme Court in proceedings under
     rule 7.2;

  (4)  a statement of concern to the extent provided
     under rule 3.4(f);

  (5)  the record and order upon approval of a
     stipulation for discipline imposing a sanction or
     admonition, and the order approving a stipulation to
     dismissal of a matter previously made public under
     these rules;

  (6) the record before a hearing officer or panel;

  (7) the record and order before the Board in any matter
     reviewed under rule 10.9 or title 11;

  (8) the bar file and any exhibits and any Board or review
     committee order in any matter that the Board or a
     review committee has ordered to public hearing, or any
     matter in which disciplinary action has been taken, or
     any proceeding under rules 7.1-7.6;

  (9)  in any disciplinary matter referred to the Supreme
     Court, the file, record, briefs, and argument in the
     case;

  (10) a lawyer’s resignation in lieu of disbarment under
     rule 9.3; and

  (11) any sanction or admonition imposed on a respondent.

(c) Regulations.  Public access to file materials and
proceedings permitted by this rule may be subject to
reasonable regulation as to time, place, and manner of
access.  Certified copies of public bar file documents will
be made available at the same rate as certified copies of
superior court records.  Uncertified copies of public bar
file documents will be made available at a rate to be set by
the Executive Director of the Association.


[Adopted effective October 1, 2002.]