ISBA Professional Conduct Advisory Opinions

  • Shareholder agreement requiring departing lawyer’s new firm to pay former firm portion of fees earned from former firm clients : Opinion # 23-02
  • Paying a referral fee to an out-of-state lawyer : Opinion # 21-04
  • Applicability of fee division and conflict of interest rules in of counsel relationship : Opinion # 16-04
  • Sharing court awarded fees with non-profit referral source : Opinion # 15-04
  • Fee sharing between discharged lawyer and successor lawyer : Opinion # 12-11
  • Third party vendor lawyer promotion (advertising) and compensation : Opinion # 06-02
  • Fee sharing upon partner becoming government prosecutor : Opinion # 03-06
  • Mediation firm paying nonlawyers in exchange for case referrals : Opinion # 01-05
  • Division of fees/compensation of contractual lawyer : Opinion # 98-02
  • Prerecorded telephone legal information hotline : Opinion # 97-06
  • Private practice in the name of a nonlawyer owned corporation : Opinion # 96-04
  • Participation in for profit telephone legal advice hotline managed and advertised by nonlawyers : Opinion # 94-11
  • Participation in for profit lawyer referral service managed and advertised by nonlawyers : Opinion # 94-12
  • Lawyer retained by collection agency on behalf of creditor : Opinion # 91-03
  • Lawyer employed by business preparing Revocable Living Trusts : Opinion # 90-20

ISBA Advisory Opinions on Professional Conduct are prepared as an educational service to members of the ISBA. While the opinions express the ISBA interpretation of the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct and other relevant materials in response to a specific hypothesized fact situation, they do not have the weight of law and should not be relied upon as a substitute for individual legal advice. For more information, call the ISBA Legal Department at (217) 525-1760 or (800) 252-8908.