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Updated through June 6, 2008
SCREENING - (See CONFLICTS OF INTEREST)
SOLICITATION - (See ADVERTISING AND SOLICITATION; REFERRALS AND RECOMMENDATIONS)
SPECIALIZATION - (See ADVERTISING AND SOLICITATION)
SPEECH
(See also JUDGES; SEMINARS)
SPOUSES - (See CONFLICTS OF INTEREST; Disqualification of lawyers, CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, Relatives representing opposing parties; JUDGES, Relatives)
Op. 92-19 sale of client files and lists
SCREENING - (See CONFLICTS OF INTEREST)
Op. 97-3 attorney's surreptitious recording of conversations with clients, opposing parties, opposing counsel, and others
Op. 87-7 advertising and conducting seminar
Op. 92-14 referees and magistrates soliciting or accepting financial support for annual educational meeting
Op. 94-13 advertising, sponsoring, co-sponsoring, acceptance of employment from legal seminars; radio talk shows
Op. 90-1 confidentiality in settlement agreement; duty to report attorney misconduct
Op. 95-12 payment of all settlement funds to client despite client's agreement with physician to pay medical expenses out of proceeds and attorneys promise to do so
Op. 96-2 attorney for tortfeasor's insurer preparing application for guardianship appointment and application for approval of settlement of the minor's claim and appearing in court for final approval of the settlement when minor and minor's parents are unrepresented by counsel during negotiation and settlement of the minor's injury claim
Op. 2002-7 advertising that lists settlement or verdict amounts obtained in past cases
Op. 2003-2 providing statistics to attorneys, business clients, and potential clients regarding the number of intellectual property matters won, lost, and settle by the law firm
Op. 2004-2 attorney, upon reaching settlement agreement in a client’s legal matter, selling or assigning his or her legal fee to a funding company in exchange for immediate cash at a small discount to the full value of the legal fee
SOLICITATION - (See ADVERTISING AND SOLICITATION; REFERRALS AND RECOMMENDATIONS)
SPECIALIZATION - (See ADVERTISING AND SOLICITATION)
SPEECH
(See also JUDGES; SEMINARS)
Op. 88-25 prosecutor's speech regarding a criminal matter
SPOUSES - (See CONFLICTS OF INTEREST; Disqualification of lawyers, CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, Relatives representing opposing parties; JUDGES, Relatives)
Op. 89-2 sharing fees with suspended or disbarred lawyer
Op. 89-18 files of deceased, suspended, or disbarred lawyer
Op. 90-6 suspended or disbarred lawyer as law clerk