Law firms need to keep a departing lawyer’s email account active and monitor and respond to incoming emails for a reasonable period of time, a newly proposed ethics opinion would rule.  Proposed 2021 Formal Ethics Opinion 6, “Departing Lawyer’s Email ...

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Two new proposed ethics opinions would prohibit lawyers from participating in certain types of advertising offered by Google that record phone calls between lawyers and potential clients, and from taking possession of photographs portraying a minor engaged in sexual activity, ...

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  Attorneys who feel stung by a one-star review are entitled to push back against any negative reviews they receive online, so long as their rebuttal is “proportional and restrained” and doesn’t disclose confidential client information, a newly proposed ethics ...

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  A proposed ethics opinion would permit lawyers to accept an opposing counsel’s offer to view certain documents subject to an “attorney eyes only” disclosure restriction without their client’s consent. Proposed 2019 Formal Ethics Opinion 7, published by the North ...

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A proposed ethics opinion published by the North Carolina State Bar Council at its January meeting reads like it could have been ripped from the script of a TV legal drama—what do lawyers need to do if the attorneys on ...

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North Carolina attorneys would be allowed to participate in repsight.com, an online service that offers to help lawyers accumulate more positive client reviews, under certain conditions, but would not be allowed to become members of “Lawyers of Distinction,” a private ...

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An attorney who contends that the North Carolina State Bar should have referred an ethics complaint against Gov. Roy Cooper to an independent investigator will not be able to challenge the bar’s failure to do so in state court, the ...

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The Ethics Committee of North Carolina State Bar Council proposed four new ethics opinions at its first meeting of 2018. The committee will consider adopting the opinions at the next council meeting April 17-20 in Raleigh. The committee did not ...

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Debra A. Squires-Lee and Thomas W. Kirchofer Dolan Media Newswires With summer approaching and the July bar exam looming, law firms are beginning to think about next year’s incoming class of associates. There will be training and mentoring and plenty ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina panel is fining 30 candidates for elective office $250 each because they failed to file reports that could disclose conflicts between their personal and political interests. WRAL reports the state Ethics Commission’s action ...

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