§ 776.13 - Preamble.

(a) Rules of Professional Conduct. (1) A judge advocate in the naval service is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system, a commissioned officer, and a public citizen who has a special responsibility for the quality of justice and legal services provided to the Department of the Navy and to individual clients. The Rules of Professional Conduct set out in subpart B of this part govern the ethical conduct of naval judge advocates practicing under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the Manual for Courts-Martial, 10 U.S.C. 1044 (Legal Assistance), other laws of the United States, and regulations of the Department of the Navy.

(2) The rules in subpart B of this part are specifically addressed to the conduct of judge advocates but apply to all other lawyers who practice under the supervision of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy. (Use of the term “judge advocate” in subpart B applies to all lawyers unless otherwise indicated.)

(b) [Reserved]