In Re Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion No. 697

This appeal requires that we re-examine the proscription governing concurrent representation by a lawyer or law firm of both a public entity and a private client before one of the boards or agencies of that public entity. Responding to two specific inquiries posed by appellant Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A., the Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics (Advisory Committee) concluded that

an attorney, law firm, or office associates of that attorney or law firm, representing a municipal body subject to the governing entity’s budgetary, membership, or decision-making control, is precluded from…