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: Legal Ethics ForumTexas Approves Use of Insurance Company Captive Law Firms
It's been a major battle that the UPL committee had been winning, as this article notes, but the Texas Supreme Court reversed that committee's policy and authorized the use of captive firms to represent insureds. The opinion, Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee v. American Home Assurance Co., Inc., is here. It was 7-2. A lot of the opinion is founded on Texas-specific statutes, but it's quite a change from the old approach and is likely to have a significant impact on house insureds are represented in Texas.
Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on April 05, 2008 (boomark / email).
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