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'Ghostwriting' Lawyers Remain Cloaked

By Glen Ashman

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New Jersey Law Journal

A federal magistrate judge's ruling last year that "ghostwriting" pleadings for a pro se litigant violates a lawyer's ethical duty of candor to the court has caused an uproar loud enough to get a New Jersey Supreme Court ethics committee's attention. In a formal opinion meant to calm nerves, the Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics says it's ethical, in limited circumstances, for a lawyer to draft pleadings and give other "unbundled" legal assistance to pro se parties without telling the court.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1201514748274

Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on January 30, 2008 (boomark / email).

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