We posted here in July about the legal ethics aspects of representing clients involved in the marijuana industry.
Now comes an ethics ruling from North Dakota about a lawyer’s own use of medical marijuana. The lawyer, living in North Dakota and licensed there, has a medical condition that qualifies the lawyer for medical marijuana treatment
Confessing judgment on behalf of a cognovit note debtor does not place a lawyer in an inherent conflict of interest, the Ohio Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline has held in an advisory opinion.
The Ohio Board’s opinion updates an older opinion issued under the state’s former Code of Professional Responsibility. (Ohio adopted