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Attorney is Disqualified From Representing Parent After Partner Served as GAL

by in Attorney Client Relationship, Conflict of Interest, Ethics Opinion, News, Professionalism. Posted April 5, 2018
According to a recent opinion from the Illinois State Bar Association, a lawyer cannot represent a parent in a custody or child support case because another lawyer at the firm, who had worked as a solo practitioner previously, had represented the child as a court-appointed guardian ad litem in a visitation matter. Attorney
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ABA Warns Attorney’s Posting on Public Commentaries

by in Attorney Client Relationship, confidentiality, Ethics Opinion, Legal Services, Professionalism, Social Media. Posted March 29, 2018
The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (“ABA”) has issued Formal Opinion 480 warning lawyers who participate in online public commentaries (Twitter, Facebook, blogs etc.) that they cannot always circumvent their duty of confidentiality, under Model Rule 1.6, by positing fact patterns that include a client’s information as a “hypothetical.”
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