LEO: Attorney/Client Relationship — LE Op. 691

 

    Attorney/Client Relationship — Immigration.

 

    April 26, 1985

 

    It is not improper for an attorney to accept at face value the representation of an alien client that said client's marriage to a U.S. citizen or permanent resident is bona fide unless the attorney knows or, in the exercise of ordinary diligence upon reasonable inquiry during the attorney/client relationship, the attorney should know of information to the contrary. [DR:1-102(A)(3), (4)]

 

    Committee Opinion April 26, 1985

 

LEO: Attorney/Client Relationship -, LE Op. 691 (1985)