Adopted October 8, 1952 QUERY. The Central Committee has referred to the Ethics Committee a complaint and a reply thereto, wherein a member of the bar complains against another because of the following facts: (for obvious reasons true names are not used.) Sadie employed A to represent her in a compensation case before the Industrial…

Adopted October 8, 1952 Messrs. Carder & Carder, Baker Building, Hobart, Oklahoma. Attention: Mr. Clayton Carder. Gentlemen: “Your letter of May 12, 1952, has been referred to the Legal Ethics and Statewide Disciplinary Action Committee of the Oklahoma Bar Association. This question is covered by Canon No. 6 of Professional Ethics. The second and third…

Adopted November 12, 1952; Withdrawn by Opinion No. 175 Adopted December 9, 1953 FACTS A and B are partners in the general practice of law. A holds two offices. one as a Justice of Peace, and one as Police Judge. The questions are twofold: 1. Can A and B remain partners in all courts other…

Adopted January 14, 1953 QUERY A county bar association wants to know whether or not it can conduct an advertising display in local papers to the effect that “no one but an attorney should prepare your legal papers”. We presume that other similar statements would be carried and that the ads would point out the…

Adopted January 14, 1953 QUERY Can a lawyer ethically run a notice in a newspaper advising the public that he prepares income tax returns, and giving his name and address but omitting the fact that he is a lawyer? ANSWER The running of such a notice would be a violation of Canon 27, and therefore…

Adopted January 14, 1953 QUERY Is it proper for an attorney or a firm of attorneys to engage in the insurance and real estate business, which business will be extensively advertised, and practice law, using their law offices as their insurance and real estate offices? ANSWER In Advisory Opinion No. 145 of the Oklahoma Bar…

Adopted January 14, 1953 QUERY A County Judge wrote the Committee on Legal Ethics and State-Wide Discipline a letter which reads in part, “The Facts. The preparation of individual’s income tax returns is not exclusively undertaken by the legal profession and is only an incidental phase of an an [sic] attorney’s work. In fact, any…

Adopted June 10, 1953 QUERY Lawyers who were formerly suspended from the practice of law and who have been subsequently reinstated now make inquiry as to what type of announcements, letters, or notices, if any, they may send out with reference to their reinstatement, and whether or not they can properly send said announcements, etc.,…

Adopted June 10, 1953 QUERY A Judge wrote the undersigned Committee stating that he had recently been appointed judge of a Superior Court. That at the time of appointment he had a number of cases pending in the State, District, County and Superior Courts. He asks whether or not it is proper to complete these…

Adopted June 10, 1953 QUERY The following inquiry was received: “I have recently started my practice of Law here in _____________ and was wondering if it might be proper for me to run an announcement that I had started my practice of Law. If it is not unethical to run such an ad, I would…