Committee on Professional Ethics – Opinion 933
Topic: Dual practice; real estate broker; law office.
Digest of the Committee:
“A lawyer may conduct a law practice and a real estate brokerage business in the same office, and may advertise them together provided that the advertising is neither false nor misleading, but may not act as lawyer and broker in the same transaction.”
Rules: New York Rules of Professional Conduct 1.6 (a) and (c), 5.7, 5.8, 7.1, 1.7(a)
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