LEO: Legal Aid Society - Newspaper Column  LE Op. 410

 

Legal Aid Society - Newspaper Column.

 

April 28, 1981

 

It is not ethically improper for an attorney employed by a Legal Aid

Society to give general legal advice on a topic of law in a newspaper of

general circulation. It is not ethically improper for an attorney,

employed by a Legal Aid Society, to answer in a newspaper of general

circulation specific questions furnished in the newspaper by the general

public. In both cases, the attorney should refrain from giving a general

solution which the general public might presume is applicable to all

apparently similar individual problems. The attorney is further admonished

to advise the general readership that individuals should not seek to solve

their individual problems on the basis of the information contained

therein, such information being of a general nature only. [See II: DR:2-

101, EC:2-2 and EC:2-5.]

 

Committee Opinion April 28, 1981