Office of General Counsel Formal Opinion
Topic: Lawyers’ Use of Deal-of-the-Day Marketing Programs
From the Opinion:
use of daily deal websites, such as Groupon, violates or potentially violates a number of rules of professional conduct.
Rules: 1.1; 1.15(a); 1.3; 5.4 (a); 7.2 (c); 7.2 (f)
Referenced Ethics Opinions:
- New York State Bar Opinion 897
- North Carolina State Bar 2011 Formal Ethics Opinion 10
- South Carolina Ethics Advisory Opinion 11-05
- Indiana State Bar Ass’n Legal Ethics Comm., Advisory Op. 1 (2012)
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