Amendment to Opinion No. 71-2. A county attorney or a law firm of which he is a member may not ethically represent clients in divorce actions involving minor children unless the county board of such county has adopted by Resolution a general policy permitting its county attorney to represent parties to a divorce action involving minor children and agreeing to engage at the expense of the county a...

A lawyer who has represented a husband in connection with his attempt to secure a dissolution of his marriage and custody of his children is disqualified to defend the wife against a charge of manslaughter, wherein it is claimed that she killed her husband in an attempt to regain custody of the of the children from the husband.

Limited by Opinion .Provided that all ethical considerations and disciplinary rules are met and complied with by the competing law firm, it is not necessarily unethical for it, without solicitation on its part, to employ a former secretary of another law firm who voluntarily seeks employment with such competing law firm.

A lawyer who has defended a wife in a marriage dissolution action brought by her husband, is not disqualified to represent a third party who has also been sued by the husband for alienation of affections and criminal conversation, with the consent of the wife who desires that her lawyer defend the third party.

A lawyer appointed by a court to defend an indigent person accused of crime, whether the lawyer be a public defender or in private practice, must permit his client to testify in his own behalf, if the client insists in so doing, even though the lawyer knows or has reason to believe that his client will give false and perjured testimony.

It is improper for two or more private practitioners who share office expenses but are not in fact partners to hold themselves out as a partnership. This precludes them from adopting a partnership name, such as "Smith, Jones & Brown" and from using such name on the door of the law office, on letterheads, in the yellow pages of the telephone directory, in answering the telephone, or in any...

Attorneys formerly employed by a Legal Aid Office as Director and Counsel who have resigned to enter private law practice may be hired on a part-time basis for a temporary period to assist the Legal Aid Office until such time as replacements are secured.

A lawyer may serve as President of a bank and take an active management role in the bank as President and also sell insurance other than life insurance from an office within the bank, and may also maintain a separate and distinct office for the general practice of law in the same community but in a building separate from the bank's offices if (1) the banking and insurance businesses are conducted...

It is not ethical for an attorney for a judgment creditor to demand from an unrepresented judgment debtor whose wages the judgment creditor has garnisheed a sum in excess of the amount the judgment creditor can take in the garnishment process in exchange for an immediate release of the garnishment order.

The Public Relations Committee of the Bar may appoint local or regional representatives to assist in obtaining publicity concerning bar association programs and activities of a public nature, but such representatives may not ethically act in matters in which they are personally involved, and such publicity shall not include anything constituting the advertising of the services of particular...

Although a lawyer may be paid for specialized legal services rendered in behalf of a planner of real estate, he, however, may not divide his fee in any manner whatsoever with the planner, nor can he become a member of a partnership or corporation with him, nor assist in the promotion of said projects of the planner, nor perform legal services for him in a state to which he has not been admitted...

A lawyer who had been employed by certain individuals to incorporate their company, and who had continued to represent them and the corporation prior to the involuntary dissolution of the corporation should not accept employment on behalf of his firm from a bank to sue the corporation and the individuals on a note given by the corporation and guaranteed by the individuals.

The following arrangement between a lawyer and a local credit bureau client is not unethical: In connection with lawsuits against debtors by the credit bureau, the lawyer has drafted a form of petition in which the credit bureau inserts relevant information such as balance due, assignor's name and pertinent dates. When completed, the lawyer reviews and signs his name to each petition which is...

It is permissible for a lawyer to be retained by a non-profit student senate organization to provide legal services to the senate and also to provide group legal services to the student members of the senate under currently existing constitutional interpretations, but only if: (a) the rendition of group legal service is not a primary purpose of the senate and is incidental to its primary purposes...

A prosecuting attorney who files and prosecutes criminal proceedings in a District Court or in a District County Court is not disqualified from appearing in the same court in a wholly disconnected civil proceeding, provided participation in the latter proceeding is not within the restrictions imposed by Nebraska Statutes. This ruling is equally applicable to a deputy prosecuting attorney and to...

It is permissible to publish periodically in the Creighton Law Review and the Nebraska Law Review the inquirer's dignified statement of availability as a consultant to other lawyers.It is permissible in a brief biographical statement accompanying an article on securities law in a legal journal (such as a Law Review or other legal publication circulated primarily to lawyers) to state that the...

Continued use of the name of a retired partner in the firm name is permissible under the same circumstances as apply to use of a deceased partner's name in the firm name (Opinion 72-6).

The prohibition embodied in Opinion 72-13 does not extend to a situation where the city or village attorney is appointed by a court to defend a person accused of a crime.

A city or village attorney whose duties include prosecuting violations of ordinances and state statutes may not voluntarily represent anyone charged with a crime.

It is not improper for a lawyer to be named as a sponsor of a community activity as long as he is not identified as a lawyer nor his business address shown in the announcement, although the practice is not to be encouraged.