Category: Ethics Opinions

Ethics Opinion 994

Topic:     Conflict of interest arising from lawyer’s nonlegal employment by a law client.

Ethics Opinion 992

Topic: Permissible business structures and fee arrangements for a lawyer to work with a business person who seeks to establish a “Disability Office” to help persons with government benefit matters, most of which do not require representation by legal counsel.

Ethics Opinion 993

Topic:    Misrepresentations as to purchase price in residential real estate contracts; disclosure of “gross-ups”

Ethics Opinion 991

Topic:         Lawyer’s disclosure of confidential information for personal advantage

Ethics Opinion 986

Topic:    Whether it is a conflict of interest for a lawyer who represents a mentally incapacitated client in a Medicaid benefits proceeding to also represent the client’s sister in seeking to petition for a guardianship for the client where the incapacitated client’s stated wishes as to living arrangements are contrary to the sister’s position.