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Dear Sheriff Morein:

This office in receipt of your opinion request relating to the following:

Whether an attorney whose partner is a Parish Indigent Defender may serve as a civil legal counsel to the Sheriff in the same Parish. The attorney's duties as civil legal counsel to the Sheriff would be limited to civil matters and would be limited to giving the Sheriff advice on things such as Sheriff's sales, health insurance, employee-employer relations administrative problems, and things of that nature. The job would entail some litigation on liability cases, however, the Sheriff's Department is…