Adopted June 22, 1974. INQUIRY (1) If a client was previously represented in connection with divorce litigation by a lawyer associated with a certain law firm, but such lawyer's association with such firm has since terminated, may such firm, the present members and associates of which received no confidences or secrets of such client, ethically… Continue reading...

Adopted September 21, 1974 [Withdrawn and replaced by Legal Ethics Opinion No. 290] Title insurance companies have sought and obtained the services of attorneys as policy soliciting and issuing agents. Such agents are paid the normal commissions upon policies of title insurance solicited and sold by them. The Committee has been asked its opinion upon… Continue reading...

Adopted October 18, 1974 INQUIRY (1) Is it ethically proper for an attorney to employ as an associate an attorney who is simultaneously employed as a referee by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals? (2) Is it ethically proper for an attorney to practice law before various municipal boards, commissions, courts, and council, etc., when… Continue reading...

Adopted November 22, 1974 INQUIRY The Board of Governors has referred to the Committee the following question submitted by an attorney: Is it proper for an individual attorney to form a professional corporation, which professional corporation then becomes a partner in the law partnership in which the individual attorney was formerly a partner? OPINION It… Continue reading...

Adopted February 17, 1975 INQUIRY Is it ethically proper for an attorney to accept employment from a prospective purchaser of state revenue bonds to render an opinion approving the validity of such bonds, when the state agency selling the bonds requires all bidders, as a condition of their bid, to agree to obtain such an… Continue reading...

Adopted April 18, 1975 INQUIRY May an attorney permit publication in or through a medium of public communication of a letter written by him concerning litigation he had handled which by the context of the letter indicates that the writer is the attorney involved in the litigation? STATEMENT OF FACTS A member of the bar… Continue reading...

Adopted May 16, 1975 INQUIRY Is it ethical and proper for an attorney to charge interest on fees for professional services rendered and expenses advanced which are past due? OPINION The answer to the inquiry is yes for the reasons set out below. There are no specific provisions in the code of Professional Responsibility which… Continue reading...

Adopted July 19, 1975 INQUIRY An attorney has submitted an inquiry concerning the ethical propriety of circumstances in which attorneys employed by a governmental agency in its real estate division and performing professional services are subject to supervision by two or three levels of lay supervisors. It appears that legal advice to the head of… Continue reading...

Adopted November 21, 1975 INQUIRY May a lawyer who employes [sic] one or more other lawyers properly practice under a name which uses the term "Associates" following his own name? OPINION The applicable Disciplinary Rule is DR 2-102(B), which is, in pertinent part, as follows: "A lawyer in private practice shall not practice under a… Continue reading...

Adopted October 29, 1976 THIS OPINION REPLACES LEGAL ETHICS OPINION NO. 281 WHICH IS HEREBY WITHDRAWN. SYLLABUS An attorney may recommend to his client the purchase of title insurance, and thereafter act as both title examiner and agent for the title insurance company in a real estate transaction or a loan transaction, so long as… Continue reading...