February 20, 2019 - Legal Ethics Advisor

Daily Archives: February 20, 2019

New York State Bar Withdraws Proposal for ABA Best Practices for Online Legal Document Providers

by Sydney Feldman in Attorney Client Relationship, Featured, Legal Services, online legal document providers, Outsourcing, Rules of Professional Conduct, Technology. Posted February 20, 2019

The online legal services market is a worldwide, multi-billion dollar (and growing) industry, with clients increasingly turning to the Internet—rather than an attorney—for their legal needs. Withdraws

[…] of a non-binding advisory opinion, as has been the case with other jurisdictions such as, Florida, San Francisco, and Delaware, it is important to note that Ohio went a step further and amended its rule regarding […]

Remote Lawyering: New Jersey and Ohio On Board - Legal Ethics Advisor on Remote Work: San Francisco Bar Association Advice in Ethics Opinion 2021-1
Not all jurisdictions have adopted the Model Rule version of the choice of law rule; seems like there might be a different result in at least some of those states. See, e.g., NY RPC 8.5(b)(2)(i) ("If the lawyer is licensed to practice only in this state, the rules to be applied shall be the rules of this state").

Art Lachman on ABA Opinion 499 Green Lights Lawyers’ Passive Investment in Firms with NonLawyer Ownership

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