Legal Opinion
Lyon v. Alabama State Bar
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided May 11, 1984No. 82-574PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Two attorneys, I. Harry Lyon and Michael D. Blalock, appealed from the order of the Alabama State Bar Disciplinary Board (Board) that they each receive a private reprimand for failure to comply with specific disciplinary rules regarding advertising. We affirm in part and reverse and remand in part.
On February 19, 1981, Lyon and Blalock published an advertisement in the Shelby County Reporter, a weekly newspaper of general circulation in the municipality and county in which the office of the attorneys was located.
On April 6, 1981, the general counsel of the Alabama State Bar (Bar), William H.…
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