Cal. Rules of Prof. Conduct, rule 1.8.7 · Chapter 1. Lawyer-Client Relationship
Aggregate Settlements
Text — 2026 edition, as the State Bar of California publishes it (read October 22, 2026)
(a) A lawyer who represents two or more clients shall not enter into an aggregate settlement of the claims of or against the clients, or in a criminal case an aggregate agreement as to guilty or nolo contendere pleas, unless each client gives informed written consent.* The lawyer’s disclosure shall include the existence and nature of all the claims or pleas involved and of the participation of each person* in the settlement.
(b) This rule does not apply to class action settlements subject to court approval.
Source of truth
- Edition
- 2026 edition, as the State Bar of California publishes it (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://www.calbar.ca.gov/sites/default/files/portals/0/documents/rules/Rules-of-Professional-Conduct.pdf (PDF pages 29)
- Text hash
- sha256 6a4b48c3d7ce9a085a9cd539e0b16756a0b2e61cec2848ea0c62263dc26a9284
- Composed by
- rpc/build 2026-10-22: the State Bar's 2026 PDF (pages 12-71) read by two readers, PyMuPDF glyph positions and pdfminer with the PDF's tagged structure, agreeing on 834 of 843 paragraphs character for character, the other nine (paragraph boundaries only) resolved against the rendered page; 205,485 printed glyphs accounted for; the State Bar's chapter pages a third reading
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