Review of State Bar Complaints and Allegations Against Department of Justice Attorneys

What it does

The Department of Justice ("Department") proposes to establish a process for reviewing bar complaints and allegations against its attorneys. Under the proposed rule, before a current or former Department lawyer may participate in any investigative steps initiated by the bar disciplinary authority of a State, Territory, or the District of Columbia in response to allegations that a current or former Department attorney violated an ethics rule while engaging in that attorney's federal duties, the Department will have the right to review the allegations in the first instance and shall request that the bar disciplinary authority suspend any parallel investigations until the completion of the Department's review.

The Justice Department's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What it would change

1 part of Title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

28 CFR 77

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 1105-AB82 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

Comments are due on or before April 6, 2026. Comments received by mail will be considered timely if they are postmarked on or before the last day of the comment period. The electronic Federal Docket Management System will accept electronic comments until midnight Eastern time at the end of that day.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket DOJ-OAG-2026-0001 on Regulations.gov
• Title 28 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register