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A credit card may be used for the payment of legal fees and a lawyer may enter into the standard “Merchant Agreement” with the credit card issuer provided the lawyer enters into a fee agreement in which the client consents to limited...
The Appellate Division of the State Department of Employment Security has included in its mailing to pro se appellants a notice of the availability of representation through the Family and Housing Law Clinic of the Franklin Pierce Law Center. The...
An attorney may not act as town counsel when the firm with which the attorney is associated represents clients in pending matters against that town and continues to accept representation of clients in future matters against the town. DR5-105...
During the course of representation of a client, a lawyer shall not communicate or cause another to communicate on the subject of the representation with a party that he/she knows is represented by a lawyer in that matter, unless he/she has the...
An attorney may recommend that client enter into a separate contingency fee agreement with a medical consulting firm which offers technical research services, expert witnesses, etc., provided that (1) the service does not engage in the practice...
A lawyer who is admitted to practice in New Hampshire, but who maintains an office and practices primarily in Boston, has formed a New Hampshire corporation with a licensed realtor and another party experienced in the real estate business. The...
Does the concurrent occupancy of the office of County Attorney and the office of City Councilor in a city in the same county violate the Code of Ethics?
The disposition of the client funds is governed by New Hampshire statute. Whether attorney’s fees and expenses can be withdrawn from the funds depends upon the terms of the fee agreement and whether there is a dispute or whether there is a...
An attorney is under no duty to inform the authorities of a past probation violation by a client, and in fact is prohibited from doing so without the client’s consent. (DR4-101(b)(1); DR4-101(c)(3)).
The inquiring attorney appeared on behalf of an accused in a New Hampshire district court in 1979. The charge was driving while intoxicated (DWI), second offense. It was reduced to a DWI, first offense, to which the defendant entered a plea of...
