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Opinion 24-01 |
Court Obligations | Scope of Representation
An Illinois lawyer acting as local counsel for an out-of-state lawyer shares the same duties to the client as the lawyer acting as lead counsel. While local counsel and the client may agree to limit the role of local counsel upon informed consent, that lawyer remains subject to the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct. A lawyer may only enter a general appearance in an Illinois state court criminal matter and is subject to the rules and orders of the court, including any orders requiring local counsel’s appearance at any or all court proceedings.
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Opinion 14-07 |
Advice to Client | Government Representation | Scope of Representation
An Illinois lawyer may provide services to a client on legal matters generated by the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act.
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Opinion 04-03 |
Arbitration and Mediation | Communication With Unrepresented Person | Scope of Representation
A lawyer who mediated a divorce settlement between unrepresented husband and wife may not prepare a proposed judgment of dissolution of marriage, a marriage separation agreement and joint parenting agreement for husband and wife and allow husband and wife to file said documents as pro se litigants.
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Opinion 99-08 |
Conflict of Interest - Transactional Matters | Discharge of Lawyer | Scope of Representation
A lawyer may prepare a trust document for a client that at the client's request directs the trustee to engage that lawyer to provide legal services for the trust. The lawyer may do so, however, only if the client consents after the lawyer fully communicates and discloses the economic interest of the lawyer in including such provision and indicates that such provision might not be enforceable.
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Opinion 96-08 |
Advertising and Solicitation | Scope of Representation
- It is not misleading for a law firm to hold itself out as concentrating its practice in intellectual property law despite the fact that it does not do patent work. However, it may not hold itself out as "specializing" in any field of practice.
- A law firm may not have outside lawyers perform legal services without client disclosure and consent.
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Opinion 94-01 |
Lawyer Retained and Compensated and Directed by Third Party | Scope of Representation | Unauthorized Practice of Law
A lawyer aids in the unauthorized practice of law, and may violate rules pertaining to confidentiality, conflicts, and the duty to communicate with and explain matters to a client, by limiting his role in a real estate transaction to the drafting of documents and delegating the gathering and dissemination of information, the resolution of problems arising from the documents drafted, and other problems which may arise at the closing, to the real estate broker.
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Opinion 93-11 |
Lawyer Retained and Compensated and Directed by Third Party | Scope of Representation | Unauthorized Practice of Law
An attorney may be retained to render services for a client by a third party. The party must be authorized to retain the attorney and the attorney's judgment must not be directed or regulated by the third party. The third party must be paid on either an hourly or contingent fee basis by the client and the attorney must not share fees with a non-attorney third party.
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Opinion 87-02 |
Lawyer Retained and Compensated and Directed by Third Party | Scope of Representation | Unauthorized Practice of Law
Lawyer must be satisfied that an agent has authority to retain lawyer to perform legal services on behalf of another.
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Opinion 85-06 |
Court Obligations | Scope of Representation
It is improper for a lawyer to advise client, prepare pleadings, motions and petitions for client as a pro se litigant, file documents in court on client's behalf, but not appear for and on behalf of client during judicial proceedings.
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Opinion 849 |
Scope of Representation
It is not improper for an attorney, pursuant to prior agreement with the client, to limit the scope of his representation in a proceeding for dissolution of marriage to the preparation of pleadings, without appearing or taking any part in the proceeding itself, provided the client is fully informed of the consequences of such agreement, and the attorney takes whatever steps may be necessary to avoid foreseeable prejudice to the client's rights.
