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Clarification

California Lawyers Receive Clarification on the Limits of Negotiation ‘Puffery’

The State Bar of California Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct released an opinion this month concluding that while engaged in negotiations on behalf of a client, an attorney’s puffery and posturing are generally permissible, but false statements of fact or implicit representations are prohibited. Clarification
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Certification

South Carolina Attorneys May Tout Certification as Privacy Professional

Can attorneys use a Privacy Professional as their designation in a signature block? Are attorneys implicating ethics rules, such as advertising, by doing so? The South Carolina Bar recently issued an Ethics Advisory Opinion stating that a lawyer who is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/US (“CIPP/US”) may use that designation in her e-mail signature block and other communications. Certification
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