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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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The Client Comes First: Lawyers Must Report Co-Counsel’s Potential Malpractice

by in Ethics Opinion, Featured, Professionalism. Posted October 5, 2016
The sanctity of the attorney-client relationship relies in large part on establishing and preserving a bedrock of trust between the parties. A recently released opinion by The New York State Bar reinforces this principle by concluding that a lawyer to must disclose to his client any potential malpractice of a co-counsel Report
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