The no-contact rule and drafting an agreement for your client to give to the opponent

Legal Profession Blog has news of a censure handed down in Wyoming in a case where a lawyer drafted changes to a settlement agreement and gave them to the client in the expectation that the client would deliver the changes to the opposing party outside the presence of counsel. Isn't that the very behavior -- or extremely close to it -- that might be pemitted by the new ABA opinion? It had been my view that the ABA opinion would not play well across the country. We'll see. As noted previously, the ABA may be rethinking that opinion (11-461).