Utah Legal Ethics Opinions

A year and a half ago, I wrote about the ethos of serving as a local consultant. See Keith A. Call & Robert T. Denny, Serving as Local Counsel, 29 Utah B.J. 48 (July/August 2016). Since then, Utah`s local attorney law has undergone a major change. Subscribers can see a visualization of an incident and its relationship to other incidents. As an alternative to case lists, the previous case map makes it easier to determine which ones are most relevant to your search and prioritizes further reading. You will also get a useful overview of how the case was received. Originally published in the Utah State Bar Journal Jan/Feb 2018 In September 2017, the Utah Bar Ethics Advisory Opinion Committee (EAOC) provided important new guidance to Utah attorneys. Any Utah attorney acting as a local attorney should read this statement. See Utah State Bar Ethics Adv.

op. cit. Comm., op. cit. 17-04 (2017, September 26). Here are some highlights. Acting as a mail depot is inadequate Sometimes an out-of-state attorney tries to keep a local attorney for no other reason than to “rent” the license of a Utah attorney with an address in Utah. Perhaps the most important lesson of the new EAOC statement is that simply acting as a simple mail repository does not fulfill your ethical duties as a local consultant. Read the full article >>> subscribers can see a list of all cases cited and the legislation of a document.

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