The following terms and expressions shall refer to the corresponding meanings, unless otherwise stated in the context 

• - Law: The Code of Law Practice 

• - Rules: Rules of Professional Conduct for Lawyers.

• - Profession: Legal profession.

• - Ministry: Ministry of Justice.

• - Minister: Minister of Justice.

• - Legal work: Every work performed by a lawyer in the exercise of his profession in accordance with the provisions of the Law, including representation of third parties, and rendering consultancy services based on the principles of Sharia and the rule of law

• - Law firm: a law office or a professional law firm.

The Rules aim to achieve the following:

• 1- Develop and raise the standards of the legal profession. 

• 2- Regulate the responsibility of lawyer in the practice of his profession and define his responsibilities towards clients, colleagues, judicial authorities and society.

• 3- Bolster the legal protection of lawyer, their clients, and other concerned parties.

• 4- Promote the principles of transparency and accountability in the lawyer’ professional practices.

• 5- Improve the efficiency of the justice system’s performance by enhancing the level of legal professionalism and promoting its preventive aspects. 

The Lawyer shall maintain the honor and dignity of the profession and shall not act in any way that undermines the people’s trust in them or the profession.

Lawyer shall conduct himself with honor, honesty, and integrity on a personal level, even outside the scope of the legal practice.

Lawyer shall conduct himself with honor, honesty, and integrity on a personal level, even outside the scope of the legal practice.

The lawyer shall strive to continuous learning and development. He shall follow up on the new laws, regulations, rules, decisions and the like in relevance to the profession, in what enables him to practice it with the highest degree of professionalism, and to avoid mistakes and negligence.

The lawyer contributes to serving the community and those in need through volunteer work and community initiatives as required by the relevant laws.

1- The lawyer shall not act in any way that represents an actual or potential conflict of interests with his current or former clients, except after obtaining the written consent of the concerned client.

2- The lawyer shall not act in any way that represents an actual or potential conflict of interests with former employers, except after obtaining the written consent of the concerned employer. 

3- Providing legal services against former employers shall not be considered a conflict of interest, if five years have passed since the expiration of the relationship between both parties.

4- Providing legal work against former clients shall not be considered a conflict of interest, if three years have passed since the expiration of the relationship between both parties or since the last legal work were provided.

1- The lawyer may not represent third parties in any case or consult on any incident to which he was previously privy, which he considered, or about which he expressed his opinion in his capacity as an arbitrator, mediator, expert, conciliator, third party, judge, prosecutor, employee, lawyer, or attorney of the other party.

2- An exception to paragraph 1 of this rule: The lawyer may represent a client and consult on a case or incident to which he was previously privy, which he considered, or about which he expressed his opinion in his capacity as a lawyer or an attorney of the other party, if all parties to the case or incident express their consent in writing.