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Lawyers Reporting Lawyers…Duty to Report in a Government Agency

by in confidentiality, Ethics Opinion. Posted July 5, 2017
Recently, the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics opined that a government lawyer with knowledge of another government agency lawyer’s ethical violation that questions the lawyer’s fitness to practice law must report the information to a tribunal authorized to investigate the conduct, unless the information is confidential and the agency does not consent to its disclosure. Lawyers
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Avvo’s Directory Akin to the Yellow Pages: Embedded Attorney Advertising Does Not Render a Profile Listing to be Commercial Speech

by in Ethics Opinion, Featured. Posted October 12, 2016
On September 12, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled in Vrdolyak v. Avvo, Inc. that Avvo’s publishing of online profiles of Illinois attorneys, which may contain advertisements for competing attorneys on the same page,  does not violate an individual attorney's publicity rights. Advertising
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