Committee seeks public comments on two proposed ethics opinions

Originally published by Lowell Brown.

The Professional Ethics Committee for the State Bar of Texas is accepting public comments on two proposed ethics opinions through June 27.

• Proposed Opinion 20-2 (Revised) concerns whether a lawyer who represents a defendant in a criminal matter violates the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct if, after receiving tangible evidence from the lawyer’s client, the lawyer does not reveal the existence of the evidence until trial and refuses to allow the prosecuting attorney to inspect the evidence until the court orders the lawyer to do so.
• Proposed Opinion 20-4 deals with whether the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct allow a lawyer to use a nonlawyer employee to attract prospective clients to a booth in a public place operated by that nonlawyer employee.

Go to texasbar.com/pec to read the proposed opinions and provide comments.

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