In Re Allstate Insurance Co.

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING ON INFORMATION

BLACKMAR, Judge.

The respondent, Allstate Insurance Company, is a liability insurer which sometimes assigns attorneys in its full-time employ to defend its insured in civil litigation. The Advisory Committee brought an action in this Court charging (1) that the use of employee attorneys in this manner violates § 484.020(1), RSMo Supp.1984, in that it constitutes the practice of law (§ 484.-010(1), RSMo 1978) and the doing of law business (§ 484.010(2), RSMo 1978) by a corporation; and (2) that there are impermissible conflicts of interest between the insurer…