Section 4 - Punctuality

As amended through June 28, 2024

A lawyer should be punctual in communications with others and in honoring scheduled appearances.

Specifically, a lawyer who manifests professional courtesy and civility:

(a) Arrives sufficiently in advance of trials, hearings, meetings, depositions, or other scheduled events so that preliminary matters can be resolved.

(b) Timely notifies all other participants and the court when, for a reason beyond the lawyer's control, the lawyer will be unavoidably late.

(c) Timely notifies all other participants and the court when the lawyer is aware that a participant will be late for a scheduled event.

Amended effective 10/4/2004; amended September 7, 2017, effective 1/1/2018; amended August 22, 2023, effective 1/1/2024.