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Venmo Your Lawyer? New Freedom with Opinion 21-2

by Jan Jacobowitz in Attorney Client Relationship, Attorney Fees, client confidentiality. Posted April 15, 2021

Florida Bar Proposed Advisory Opinion 21-2 Advises on Venmo, PayPal, and Other Payment Apps The Florida Bar recently released Proposed Advisory Opinion 21-2 that provides guidance for lawyers that want to accept payment for legal fees through a web-based payment processing system like Venmo or Pay Pal. The Opinion advises that use of a web-based ...

Impermissible Fee-Sharing? Missouri District Court Deems Firm to be Unconventional, But Compliant

by Esther Ponce de Leon in Attorney Fees, Fee-Sharing. Posted May 7, 2020

A “virtual” law firm got a win when the U.S, District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri held that the firm, though unconventional, did not violate fee-sharing prohibitions.

Utah Advances the Conversation: Future of Lawyering to Include NonLawyers?

by Jan Jacobowitz in ABA, Attorney Fees, client confidentiality, confidentiality, COVID-19, Rule 5.4 Professional Independence of a Lawyer, Uncategorized, Utah Regulatory Reform. Posted May 2, 2020

The Utah Supreme Court recently posted its Standing Order 15 and proposed amendments to its Rules of Professional Conduct 5.4 (Professional Independence of a Lawyer) and 1.5 (Attorney Fees), which pave the way for collaboration between lawyers and non-lawyers to both provide legal services and share revenue. Future

Florida Contemplates Fee Sharing with Out of State NonLawyers

by Daniel Celaya in Attorney Fees, Attorneys Fees, Bar Opinions, Ethics Opinion, Legal Services, Outsourcing, Professionalism, Uncategorized, work product privilege. Posted August 8, 2017

A proposed advisory opinion by The Florida Bar's Professional Ethics Committee addresses fee-splitting with out-of-state lawyers when the out-of-state lawyer practices in a law firm with nonlawyer ownership. Contemplates

[…] 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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