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Hello everyone and welcome to this JACPA Ethics Alert. This Alert will discuss the September 21, 2011 Second District Court of Appeal opinion which granted a writ of certiorari and remanded the denial of the disqualification of the law firm stating that the law firm must be disqualified since it also represented the defendant’s former Read More
Read MoreRecent ABA Opinion Says Lawyers Can Assist Clients With Communications to Represented Persons/Spouses
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