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Canon:
Opinion #: 593
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For the State Bar of Texas
Date: February 2010
Is it permissible under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct for a lawyer to enter into an agreement with a client, who is not represented by independent counsel, for the settlement of the client's malpractice claim against the lawyer?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 592
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For the State Bar of Texas
Date: January 2010
Under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, may a lawyer share or promise to share legal fees with a suspended lawyer?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 591
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For the State Bar of Texas
Date: January 2010
Is it permissible under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct for three law firms with different names to advertise cooperatively using the name of one of the law firms followed by the word “Group”?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 590
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For the State Bar of Texas
Date: December 2009
Under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, may a law firm seek to enter into an agreement with a member of the firm that would require, if the lawyer later left the firm, that the lawyer would not solicit the firm's clients and would pay to the firm a percentage of any fees collected by the lawyer from the firm's clients for work after the lawyer left the firm?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 589
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For the State Bar of Texas
Date: September 2009
Do the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct permit or require a lawyer to report possibly illegal activity by an adverse party or witness when the lawyer acquires information about that activity in the course of representing a client?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 588
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For the State Bar of Texas
Date: September 2009
May a lawyer enter into a contingent fee agreement with a client for representation concerning a claim under the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act where the terms of the fee agreement would in some circumstances permit the client to retain a portion of the amount awarded in the judgment or settlement as statutory attorneys’ fees?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 587
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For the State Bar of Texas
Date: May 2009
Before filing a matter with an administrative agency having decision-making authority
over the matter, may a lawyer communicate with the administrative agency concerning the matter?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 586
Cite: The Professional Ethics Committee For the State Bar of Texas
Date: October 2008
Are binding arbitration clauses in lawyer-client engagement agreements permissible under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 585
Cite: THE PROFESSIONAL ETHICS COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE BAR OF TEXAS
Date: September 2008
In a community with only a limited number of lawyers available, may a lawyer counsel his client to retain all of the lawyers in that community for the purpose of denying local representation to the opposing party?
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Canon:
Opinion #: 584
Cite: THE PROFESSIONAL ETHICS COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE BAR OF TEXAS
Date: September 2008
Is it permissible under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct for a lawyer to continue to represent a client in a proceeding after learning that the conduct of the lawyer’s former client may be material to the proceeding?
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