Professional Ethics Committee for the State Bar of Texas Topic: “Is it permissible under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct for three law firms with different names to advertise cooperatively using the name of one of the law firms followed by the word ‘Group’?” Even though Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Rule […]
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Topic: Lawyers’ Advertising on a Publication and its Website From the Opinion “Opinion rules a lawyer may advertise the lawyer’s inclusion in the list of lawyers in North Carolina Super Lawyers and other similar publications and may advertise in such publications subject to certain conditions.” The full text can be found at: http://www.ncbar…
Consiglio Nazionale Forense, sentenza del 10 dicembre 2007, n. 28 Topic: Decency and respectability of the profession, publication of unbecoming pictures in lawyer’s website, unethical advertisement Consiglio Nazionale Forense* (Italian National Bar Council) held that lawyers must always comply with the principles of decency and respectability and that it is unethical for lawyers to publish in […]
Opinion No. 342 of the District of Columbia Bar’s Legal Ethics Committee Topic: Internet-Based Lawyer Referral Services Digest of the Committee: Lawyers may participate in both not-for-profit and for-profit lawyer Internet-based referral services where the services require a flat fee for participation, a flat fee for transmitting the lawyer’s name to a potential client, and/or […]
State Bar Association Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct Topic: Internet; Referral Services Digest of the Commitee: An online service that matches prospective clients with potential lawyers based on the appropriate geographic and practice areas, makes representations about the qualifications of its member lawyers, and provides a monetary satisfaction guarantee, is a “lawyer referral […]
Committee on Professional Ethics Explains: Opinion No. 779 (2004) Topic: Advertising and solicitation; internet website directory Digest of the Committee: “Lawyer may not participate in website that charges lawyer a fee to provide information about potential clients whom lawyer will then contact, where the website purports to analyze the prospective client’s problem and selects which […]
ISBA Professional Conduct Advisory Opinion No. 06-02 [This Opinion was AFFIRMED by the Board of Governors in January 2010] Topics: Law firm use of marketing firm. Lawyer as speaker at community events. Use of non lawyer to screen potential clients. Digest of the ISBA: “A lawyer is responsible for marketing firm’s conduct that would be in […]
Professional Ethics Committee for the State Bar of Texas Topic: Internet; Referral Services Conclusion of the Committee: Under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, a lawyer may pay a fee to participate in an internet client-lawyer connection service of the type described in this opinion provided that the requirements specified in this opinion are […]
Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Topic: Lawyers’ Use of Television Advertising Program When the activities of a company that produced television commercial for attorneys operate under certain requirements described in the relevant opinion (such as for example monthly flat fee, no matching services, callers do not pay the company, etc.) they “do not […]