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Canon:
Opinion #: 634
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For the State Bar of Texas
Date: July 2013
Under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, is it permissible for a law firm to continue to include in the firm name the name of a lawyer who temporarily moves out of Texas and accepts a job that prohibits the lawyer from engaging in the private practice of law? Is it permissible for that lawyer to continue as a member of the Texas law firm and to maintain a financial interest in the Texas law firm?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 633
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For the State Bar of Texas
Date: July 2013
Is it permissible under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct for the general counsel of an entity jointly owned by two cities to be an employee of one of the cities?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 632
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For the State Bar of Texas
Date: July 2013
Do the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct require a Texas lawyer to report to the appropriate disciplinary authority another Texas lawyer’s use of a trade name that is based on the name of the city where the second lawyer practices?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 631
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For the State Bar of Texas
Date: July 2013
Does a district attorney violate provisions of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct by publishing the names of persons charged with driving while intoxicated?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 630
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For the State Bar of Texas
Date: July 2013
Under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, may a lawyer provide to a client signed letters on the lawyer's letterhead making demands to third parties purportedly on behalf of persons who are customers of the client when the lawyer does not represent such persons?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 629
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For The State Bar of Texas
Date: May 2013
Is it permissible under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct for a personal injury lawyer to agree to refer all criminal cases to another lawyer in exchange for the other lawyer’s agreement to refer all personal injury cases to the personal injury lawyer?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 628
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For The State Bar of Texas
Date: May 2013
May a lawyer appear as “friend of the court” for a minor who is a party before an immigration court, provide factual background and legal argument to the court, and advise the minor as to the proceedings without acting as a lawyer for the minor?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 627
Cite: The Professional Ethics Commettee For The State Bar of Texas
Date: April 2013
Under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, what are the responsibilities of a law firm for preserving or disposing of files of a former client after the lawyer who represented the former client leaves the firm?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 626
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For The State Bar of Texas
Date: April 2013
Under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, may a lawyer, who had formerly represented a corporation in circumstances where the lawyer came to possess confidential proprietary information relating to the former client’s competitive position in its market, make a significant investment in a new business that will compete with the former client’s business?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 625
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For The State Bar of Texas
Date: February 2013
Is it permissible for a lawyer who replaces a client’s prior lawyer in a litigation matter to distribute funds resulting from settlement of the litigation matter without regard to a promise of payment, of which the second lawyer is aware, given to the client’s healthcare provider in a letter signed by the client’s prior lawyer?
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