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- Adopted: October 27, 2023Opinion rules that a lawyer may provide services to multiple clients simultaneously and explores various billing structures for overlapping services.
- Adopted: October 21, 2022Opinion rules that a lawyer may call as an expert witness a public adjuster who will collect a statutorily authorized contingency fee paid by the c...
- Adopted: January 21, 2022Opinion rules that a closing lawyer representing the buyer in a residential real estate transaction may not charge a fee for services performed tha...
- Adopted: October 25, 2019Opinion rules that a lawyer may advertise the lawyer’s inclusion in a list or membership in an organization that bestows a laudatory designation on...
- Adopted: October 25, 2019Opinion rules that a lawyer may receive virtual currency as a flat fee for legal services, provided the fee is not clearly excessive and the terms ...
- Adopted: April 26, 2019Opinion rules that a lawyer may not agree to terms in an ERISA plan agreement that usurp client’s authority as to the representation.
- Adopted: October 27, 2017Opinion rules that a lawyer representing an estate must maintain the checking account for the estate in accordance with Rule 1.15 consistent with t...
- Adopted: July 28, 2017Opinion rules that a lawyer is prohibited from disbursing settlement funds pursuant to the client’s directive if the funds are subject to a perfect...
- Adopted: April 21, 2017Opinion rules that lawyers may advertise through a text message service that allows the user to initiate live telephone communication.
- Adopted: April 21, 2015Opinion rules that a lawyer who represents the employer and its workers' compensation carrier must share the case evaluation, litigation plan, and ...
- Adopted: January 23, 2015Opinion rules that a lawyer who handles adoptions as part of her or his law practice and also owns a financial interest in a for-profit adoption ag...
- Adopted: July 25, 2014Opinion rules that, in a worker’s compensation case, when a client terminates representation, the subsequently hired lawyer may disclose the settle...
- Adopted: July 19, 2013Opinion rules that a law firm may not share a fee from a tax appeal with a nonlawyer tax representative unless such nonlawyer representatives are l...
- Adopted: January 25, 2013Opinion rules that a lawyer who represented an organization while employed with another firm must be screened from participation in any matter, or ...
- Adopted: January 25, 2013Opinion rules that an agreement for a departing lawyer to pay his former firm a percentage of any legal fee subsequently recovered from the continu...
- Adopted: January 25, 2013Opinion rules a lawyer may not participate as a network lawyer for a company providing litigation or administrative support services for clients wi...
- Adopted: July 20, 2012Opinion rules that testimonials that discuss characteristics of a lawyer’s client service may be used in lawyer advertising without the use of a di...
- Adopted: April 27, 2012Opinion rules that a lawyer may not agree to procure title insurance exclusively from a particular title insurance agency on every transaction refe...
- Adopted: October 21, 2011Opinion rules that a lawyer may advertise on a website that offers daily discounts to consumers where the website company’s compensation is a perce...
- Adopted: January 21, 2011Opinion rules that a lawyer may receive a fee or commission in exchange for providing financial services and products to a legal client so long as ...
- Adopted: October 29, 2010Opinion rules that a lawyer participating in a real estate transaction may not in such transaction place his client’s title insurance in a title in...
- Adopted: January 23, 2009Opinion rules that, provided the agreement does not constitute the criminal offense of compounding a crime and is not otherwise illegal, and does n...
- Adopted: October 24, 2008Opinion rules that a provision in a law firm employment agreement for dividing legal fees received after a lawyer's departure from a firm must be r...
- Adopted: April 25, 2008Opinion rules that lawyer representing an undocumented worker in a workers' compensation action has a duty to correct court documents containing fa...
- Adopted: January 25, 2008Opinion rules that a lawyer who serves on a city council or board of county commissioners may represent a criminal defendant in a criminal proceedi...
- Adopted: January 25, 2008Opinion rules a lawyer may advertise the lawyer's inclusion in the list of lawyers in North Carolina Super Lawyers and other similar publications a...
- Adopted: July 13, 2007Opinion rules that a lawyer may not charge a client for filing and presenting a motion to withdraw unless withdrawal advances the client's objectiv...
- Adopted: October 20, 2006Opinion rules that a lawyer may be a member of a for-profit networking organization provided the lawyer does not distribute business cards and is n...
- Adopted: July 21, 2006Opinion rules thata lawyer may disburse against deposited items in reliance upon a bank's fundingschedule under certain circumstances.
- Adopted: July 21, 2006Opinion rules that, outside of the commercial or business context, a lawyer may not, at the request of a third party, prepare documents, such as a ...
- Adopted: October 21, 2005Opinion rules that the compensation of a nonlawyer law firm employee who represents Social Security disability claimants before the Social Security...
- Adopted: October 21, 2005Opinion rules that an attorney may recommend that a prospective client use a computer in the attorney's office and the services of an Internet-base...
- Adopted: July 14, 2005Opinion rules that the lawyer for the buyer of residential real estate may prepare the deed without creating a client-lawyer relationship with the ...
- Adopted: April 23, 2004Opinion rules that a lawyer must deal honestly with the members of her former firm when dividing a legal fee.
- Adopted: January 16, 2004Opinion rules that a Social Security lawyer may agree to compensate a nonlawyer/ claimant's representative for the prior representation of a claimant.
- Adopted: January 16, 2004Opinion rules that a lawyer may not prepare a power of attorney for the benefit of the principal at the request of another individual or third-part...
- Adopted: July 25, 2003Opinion rules that a law firm may contract with a professional employer organization (PEO) to perform human resources, payroll, and other non-opera...
- Adopted: July 25, 2003Opinion rules that a lawyer may not proffer evidence gained during a private investigator's verbal communication with an opposing party known to be...
- Adopted: April 19, 2002Opinion rules that a lawyer may participate in a non-profit organization that promotes a cooperative method for resolving family law disputes altho...
- Adopted: January 18, 2002Opinion prohibits a lawyer from entering into an employment agreement with a law firm that includes a provision reducing the amount of deferred com...
- Adopted: July 27, 2001Opinion examines when a lawyer has a conflict of interest in representing various family members on claims for a deceased employee's workers' compe...
- Adopted: April 27, 2001Opinion rules that there is no prohibition on a law firm entering into a contract with a management firm to administer the firm provided the lawyer...
- Adopted: July 23, 1999Opinion restricts informal written communications with a judge or judicial official relative to a pending matter.
- Adopted: April 23, 1999Opinion rules that a lawyer may not accept a referral fee or solicitor's fee for referring a client to an investment advisor.
- Adopted: January 15, 1999Opinion rules that a lawyer may not comply with an insurance carrier's billing requirements and guidelines if they interfere with the lawyer's abil...
- Adopted: January 15, 1999Opinion rules that a lawyer may participate in the solicitation of funds from third parties to pay the legal fees of a client provided there is dis...
- Adopted: January 15, 1999Opinion rules that a lawyer may represent a person who is resisting an incompetency petition although the person may suffer from a mental disabilit...
- Adopted: January 16, 1998Opinion rules that a lawyer may interview an unrepresented former employee of an adverse represented organization about the subject of the represen...
- Adopted: October 24, 1997Opinion prohibits the employer's lawyer from engaging in direct communications with the treating physician for an employee with a workers' compensa...
- Adopted: July 26, 1996Opinion rules that a lawyer representing a client on a good faith claim for social security disability benefits may withhold evidence of an adverse...
- Adopted: January 12, 1996Opinion holds that the lawyer for a defendant in criminal and civil actions arising out of the same event may seek the cooperation of a crime victi...
- Adopted: October 21, 1994Opinion rules that a lawyer who owns any stock in a title insurance agency may not give title opinions to the title insurance company for which the...
- Adopted: October 01, 1994Opinion rules that a lawyer who has agreed to bill a client on the basis of hours expended may not bill the client on the same basis for reused wor...
- Adopted: July 21, 1994Opinion rules that an attorney may not communicate with the opposing party's nonparty treating physician about the physician's treatment of the opp...
- Adopted: April 15, 1994Opinion rules that a sum of money paid to a lawyer in advance to secure payment of a fee which is yet to be earned and to which the lawyer is not e...
- Adopted: January 14, 1994Opinion rules that a lawyer may accept compensation from a potentially adverse insurance carrier for representing a minor in the court approval of ...
- Adopted: January 15, 1993Opinion holds that an attorney may not pay a percentage of fees to a paralegal as a bonus.
- Adopted: October 18, 1991Opinion rules that a lawyer may sponsor truthful legal information which is provided by telephone to members of the public.
- Adopted: October 18, 1991Opinion rules that associate attorneys may be leased back to their firms.
- Adopted: July 14, 1989Opinion rules that an attorney generally may interview a rank and file employee of an adverse corporate party without the knowledge or consent of t...
- Adopted: January 13, 1989Opinion describes circumstances under which a lawyer who has been appointed to represent an indigent person may accept payment directly from the cl...
- Adopted: January 13, 1989Opinion rules that a lawyer may sue a municipality although his partner serves as a member of its governing body.
- Adopted: October 24, 1986Opinion rules that a lawyer may affiliate with a private referral service under certain conditions. (See Rule 7.2(e) of the Revised Rules for addit...
- Adopted: July 25, 1986Opinion rules that a lawyer may employ a collection agency to collect past due fees under certain circumstances.
- Adopted: April 15, 1977Inquiry: By CPR 17, issued in July, 1974, we called attention to G.S. 58-135.1 which became effective July 1, 1974, prohibiting lawyers and others ...
