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Ben Kuehne indicted: gave legal advice about accepting legal fees

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Story here, and here.   Kuehne allegedly advised criminal defense attorney Roy Black about the legality of accepting certain cash for the defense of a drug kingpin. Kuehne was presumably acting in the counselor/advisor capacity when he offered the opinion, and from the news stories it appears he undertook the role of doing due diligence to support his opinion.  He apparently has a reputation for high ethics, and is considered somewhat of an ethics guru in his legal community.

I'm just starting to dig into this case, but what caught my attention was the assertion that giving legal advice was a crime.

Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on February 09, 2008 (boomark / email).

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