When your client wants to give you a gift in his will

Your client wants to include you in his will -- the very will you're preparing for him. Your ethics antennae begin to quiver. What should you do?

You might start by reading an article by Mike Rooney in the most recent ISBA Real Property newsletter that discusses a pair of Illinois disciplinary cases centered on the lawyer-as-testamentary-gift-recipient fact pattern.

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Mark S. Mathewson

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