New ABA Formal Ethics Opinion on Attorney Office Sharing Arrangements
By EsqSocial Corporation 19/04/24
The American Bar Association recently issued a Formal Ethics Opinion addressing the ethics of attorney office sharing arrangements. In Formal Opinion 507, issued on July 12, 2023, the ABA Standard Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility opined that office sharing arrangements among non-affiliated attorneys are generally permissible under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct so long as certain ethical duties relating to confidentiality, conflicts of interest and supervision of...
By: Marshall Dennehey