Legal Opinion
In Re Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion 635.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided July 25, 1991PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Per curiam
This appeal challenges the approval by the Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics (ACPE) of the use of an “Authorization to Endorse” form (the form). When executed by the client, the form would authorize the lawyer to endorse the client’s name on a draft representing the amount of the settlement in a tort action. The lawyer would then deposit the endorsed draft in his or her trust account before final distribution of the proceeds.
We conclude that except for its application in certain unusual circumstances, the foregoing procedure should not be adopted. We therefore modify the ACPE’s…
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