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Informal Opinion Number: 2024-06

Rules: 4-1.18; 4-1.22; 4-1.15; 4-1.16; Scope [17]

Client-Lawyer Relationship; Scope

Duties to Prospective Client; File Retention; Trust Accounts and Property of Others; Declining or Terminating Representation

Subject: Client Files; Declining Representation (see also Withdrawal from Representation); Prospective Client (see also Conflict of Interest - Prospective Client); Trust Accounts and Safekeeping Property

Summary: Prospective client entitled to return of papers and properties provided to lawyer during initial consultation; prospective client not entitled to client file if representation is declined

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Informal Opinion Number: 2021-11

Rules: 4-4.2; 4-1.18

Transactions with Persons Other than Clients
Client-Lawyer Relationship

Communication with Person Represented by Counsel
Duties to Prospective Client

Subject: Communication with Represented Persons; Prospective Client (see also Conflict of Interest - Prospective Client); Second Opinion

Summary: second opinion from another lawyer while represented

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Informal Opinion Number: 2020-01

Rules: 4-1.18

Client-Lawyer Relationship

Duties to Prospective Client

Subject: Conflict of Interest - Prospective Client (see also Prosepctive Client); Divorce/Dissolution; Prospective Client (see also Conflict of Interest - Prospective Client); Screening

Summary: wife consulted with lawyer about dissolution, but did not hire; husband wants to hire firm on motion to modify

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