Legal Opinion
Leoni v. State Bar
California Supreme Court
Decided August 22, 1985No. L.A. 31851PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
THE COURT.
What is the standard for determining whether a lawyer’s solicitation of clients by mass mailings and informational pamphlets is misleading? We are asked to address this issue in our review of a recommendation of the State Bar that petitioners, Andrew Leoni and Houston Slate, be suspended from the practice of law for 30 days because their letter program—the mailing of some 250,000 letters and informational enclosures— allegedly violates the misleading or deceptive communications prohibition of Rule 2-101(A) of the Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar.1
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2Cases cited27 opinions
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