General Counsel,

2 The Tennessee Bar Association (“TBA”) petitions the Court to adopt amended rules, set out in detail below in this petition, that would govern the conduct of lawyers licensed in other jurisdictions but practicing law in Tennessee, and that would authorize such practice, on a limited, specific, and controlled basis, while governing the conduct of any lawyers who do so, all with a view toward protecting clients, the public, and the courts and honoring the choice of counsel by clients, who increasingly face multistate and interstate legal issues. In support of the adoption of these amended rules, the TBA states as follows: THE MULTIJURISDICTIONAL PRACTICE OF LAW A decade ago, the California Supreme Court’s decision in Birbrower, Montalbano, Condon P.C. v. Superior Court, 949 P. 2d 1 (1998), sent shock waves throughout our nation’s legal profession and courts, clearly revealing an increasing mismatch between an existing, century-old approach to regulating lawyers who historically practiced in one state, if not one county, and the growing interstate nature of law practice for lawyers in many diverse areas o