Dalisi Otero, Author at Legal Ethics Advisor

South Carolina: Linking Google AdWords to Opposing Party and Counsel Violates Legal Ethics Rules

by Dalisi Otero in Advertising Rules, News, Professionalism. Posted October 15, 2015

A South Carolina attorney—who used Google AdWords to link his law firm’s advertisement to the names of an opposing party timeshare company and three attorneys associated with the timeshare company—was prosecuted by the South Carolina Bar for violations of South Carolina’s advertising rules and the Lawyer’s Oath contained in South Carolina Appellate Court Rule 402(k).

California: An Attorney Must Maintain Client Confidentiality Regardless of Whether Information is Publically Available

by Dalisi Otero in News, Professionalism. Posted June 28, 2015

The State Bar of California’s ethics committee released Formal Opinion Interim No. 13-0005, a proposed opinion stating that lawyers may not disclose embarrassing or detrimental information learned in the course of representing a client even if the information is publically available. Maintain

Personally Soliciting Contributions: A “Don’t” for Judicial Candidates in Florida

by Dalisi Otero in campaign finance, First Amendment, judges, judicial ethics, News, Professionalism, Social Media. Posted May 27, 2015

In an opinion released in late April, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold Florida’s ban on judicial candidates’ personal solicitation for campaign contributions. personally

City of New York Opines on the Ethics of Outsourcing

by Dalisi Otero in Legal Services, Outsourcing, Professionalism. Posted March 21, 2015

In Formal Opinion 2015-1, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York Committee on Professional Ethics answered “a question of first impression in New York” concerning law firms’ use of professional employer organizations (“PEOs”), which “help small businesses provide employment benefits and human resource services to their employees.” Outsourcing

Prosecutors’ Letterhead: Debt Collectors’ Unethical Weapon

by Dalisi Otero in Professionalism. Posted January 6, 2015

Prosecutors’ offices should not contract with debt collection companies to use prosecutor letterhead to create and mail collection demand letters.

Lawyers: Think Before You Speak…or Type

by Dalisi Otero in News, Professionalism. Posted October 9, 2014

The Tennessee Supreme Court suspended an attorney from practice for 30 days for sending an email to a bankruptcy judge, calling the judge a “bully and clown”. Think

[…] 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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