http://myshingle.com/2008/08/articles/ethics-malpractice-issues/failing-to-make-opinion-available-on-outsourcing-is-just-so-aba/ Great Things Come in Small [Law] Practices! Tue, 15 May 2012 15:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://myshingle.com/2008/08/articles/ethics-malpractice-issues/failing-to-make-opinion-available-on-outsourcing-is-just-so-aba/#comment-3017 D. Todd Smith Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:26:42 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2008/08/articles/uncategorized/failing-to-make-opinion-available-on-outsourcing-is-just-so-aba/#comment-3017 A hearty "amen," Carolyn. Here in Texas, we have an equally troubling opinion from the state ethics commission on this issue that I think is just dead wrong. Makes you wonder if the people who write these things ever practiced law at all. A hearty “amen,” Carolyn.
Here in Texas, we have an equally troubling opinion from the state ethics commission on this issue that I think is just dead wrong. Makes you wonder if the people who write these things ever practiced law at all.

]]> http://myshingle.com/2008/08/articles/ethics-malpractice-issues/failing-to-make-opinion-available-on-outsourcing-is-just-so-aba/#comment-3016 Edward Wiest Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:31:26 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2008/08/articles/uncategorized/failing-to-make-opinion-available-on-outsourcing-is-just-so-aba/#comment-3016 Thanks for picking up on this. It never ceases to amaze me how the ABA (for all the good work it does elsewhere) arrogates to itself the right to promulgate ethical and legal education standards with the expectation they will acquire the force of law in a manner in which it is unaccountable to the general public it claims it is trying to protect. Hiding the ball on ethical pronouncements which ABA knows may ultimately govern the conduct of lawyers who are not members hardly seems consistent with promoting the rule of law--as it applies to lawyers. Thanks for picking up on this.
It never ceases to amaze me how the ABA (for all the good work it does elsewhere) arrogates to itself the right to promulgate ethical and legal education standards with the expectation they will acquire the force of law in a manner in which it is unaccountable to the general public it claims it is trying to protect. Hiding the ball on ethical pronouncements which ABA knows may ultimately govern the conduct of lawyers who are not members hardly seems consistent with promoting the rule of law–as it applies to lawyers.

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