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Rule Watch: changes to lawyer advertising rules

When a bar, a court or a legislature changes a lawyer advertising rule, it shows up here. We check the official source behind every rule in our library each day, confirm the change by hand, and update the library.

Not legal advice

Confirmed changes

No confirmed changes yet. The first one we confirm will appear here and in the feed.

Follow it in a feed reader: the Rule Watch RSS feed. The full rules are in the library of advertising rules by state.

How Rule Watch works

What does Rule Watch check?

Every official source our library cites for each state and DC, such as the professional conduct rules and bar opinions, plus the opinion lists that some bar associations post. We follow each site’s robots.txt file, read slowly, and never log in or submit anything.

What counts as a change?

A source counts as changed when its wording is different on two daily checks in a row, so a rotating banner or a page redesign is not a rule change. Probative Growth then reads the source and decides whether a rule really changed. Only real rule changes are listed here.

How fast is the library updated?

We aim to update the library within five business days of a confirmed change, with a dated note on the state’s page and a new version of the downloadable dataset. If we got something wrong, we correct it the same way and say so.

Is this legal advice?

No. Probative is a marketing firm, not a law firm. Rule Watch tells you that a rule changed and where to read it. Before you rely on a rule, read the source and ask your own counsel or your state bar’s ethics hotline.

Our write-ups of recent rule changes

Note

New York drops the Attorney Advertising label

A joint order of New York’s four Appellate Division departments, dated May 27, 2026 and effective June 1, replaced Rules 7.1 and 7.3 with versions of the ABA model rules, and reserved Rule 7.4.

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