No opinion was released.

No opinion was released.

Modified by Opinion 95-4.The use of credit cards for the payment of legal services and expenses is permitted under the Code of Professional Responsibility if specified guidelines are followed. Permitted use of such credit cards includes a possible notice to the client, to be enclosed with the statement for services, advising the client that the attorney accepts certain specified credit cards and...

A corporation which forecloses mortgages and exercises powers or sale on behalf of others is practicing law; and a lawyer may not accept employment by the corporation to do this work.

It is not unethical, per se, for an attorney to belong to a voluntary non-profit organization, which is a corporation, such as the American Legion, and still bring suit against that organization, if his position in the organization does not involve any decision making capacity such as to affect his ability to counsel with his client and exercise his free and independent expertise for his client,...

The impropriety of two or more lawyers holding themselves out as a partnership when they are not in fact partners, is not removed by insertion under the firm name of the words: (Not a Partnership).

The propriety of lawyers who formerly served on the staff of the city attorney representing clients in actions against the city depends upon the factual situation present in each case.

A county attorney may serve on the Board of Directors of a Legal Service Corporation operating in his county provided the principles and standards referred to in Formal Opinions 345 and 334 of the Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility of the American Bar Association are complied with.

It is not unethical per se for a lawyer, in partnership with a non-lawyer, to provide lobbying services if the practice of law is not involved.

An attorney's participation in a plan for furnishing prepaid legal services which limits its members in their selection of counsel, to counsel who have been furnished, selected, or approved by the plan, is unethical.

It is not ethical for an attorney whose law firm represents the personal representative of an estate which is selling real estate at the public auction to bid at the sale of his own behalf.

A lawyer should identify his location of practice under his own name or the names of the partners or some of them if there is a partnership. He should identify himself as a lawyer by the use of the words, "Law Office of", preceding his name or the use of the word "Lawyer" or the words "Attorney at Law" following his name, except that where he practices law as a "Professional Corporation", these...

While partner A is serving as an elected representative of an area technical college board, his partner, B, should not accept appointment as legal counsel for the board

An attorney is prohibited from communicating information to the society editor of the local newspaper when he attends continuing legal education seminars.

Rescinded by Opinion 87-1.An attorney, who in the course of representing a defendant in a criminal case, receives physical evidence from a third party which may be material to the case, has a duty to deliver such evidence to the County Attorney. Such attorney, after delivering such evidence to the County Attorney, should withdraw as counsel for the defendant upon proper application made to the...

An attorney member of the board of directors of a legal aid society and managing or staff attorneys of the same society may represent their respective clients against one another in an adversary proceeding or otherwise without being subject to disciplinary action under Disciplinary Rule 5-101(A) or any other provision of the Code of Professional Responsibility of the Nebraska State Bar...

Where a Nebraska attorney, at the request of and on behalf of his client, contacts another attorney relative to the registration of a foreign judgment, the Nebraska attorney has no personal responsibility for payment of the other attorney's fees absent an agreement to assume such responsibility.It would not be ethically proper for the Nebraska attorney to sue his client on behalf of the other...

It is not proper for the office of public defender to represent two criminal defendants in the same case with conflicting interests.

It is not improper for an attorney to permit his name to be included in the client reference section of an advertising brochure published by a company which provides analysis of medical malpractice cases and expert opinion and witness services in such cases.

It is improper for a lawyer to belong to a lawyer referral service, conducted by laymen, which refers clients to lawyers on a "Trade of Services" basis, solely on the basis of fee, and for which the lawyer must split the fee with a layman.