In Re Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion 705

In unambiguous terms, the New Jersey Constitution makes clear that “[t]he Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction over the admission to the practice of law and the discipline of persons admitted.” N.J. Const. art. VI, § 2, ¶ 3. In the exercise of that exclusive grant of jurisdiction, we have made clear that “[njeither the Legislature nor the Executive has any power to overrule attorney ethical standards promulgated by this Court[,]” reasoning that, “[ultimately, it is the Court that establishes the ethical standards to which an attorney is held, and neither the Legislature nor the Executive can…