Ethics Advice
Utah attorneys and LPPs with questions regarding their professional responsibilities can contact the Utah State Bar General Counsel’s office for informal guidance during any business day. The email is ethicshotline@utahbar.org. All ethics advice is non-binding and intended only to be informational. Please note that your question will be answered in the order received. Please allow for 24-48 hours for us to respond.
The Ethics Hotline advises only on the inquiring lawyer’s or LPP’s own prospective conduct. The Ethics Hotline does not address legal issues, or past conduct, nor does it provide an opinion or advice about the conduct of anyone other than the inquiring lawyer or LPP. The Ethics Hotline cannot convey advice through a paralegal or other assistant.
The General Counsel’s Office can help you identify applicable disciplinary rules, point out relevant formal ethics opinions and other resource material, and give you a reaction to your ethics question. No attorney-client relationship is established between lawyers or LPPs seeking ethics advice and the lawyers employed by the Utah State Bar.
Inquiring attorneys or LPPs must be able to state their ethical question concisely and have an awareness of the controlling Rule of Professional Conduct. The guidance provided is informal advice and attorneys and LPPs are urged to read the rules and exercise their own judgement.
Attorneys and LPPs seeking a formal ethics opinion should contact the Ethics Advisory Opinion Committee here: https://www.utahbar.org/bar-committee-ethics-advisory-opinions/
Utah attorneys and LPPs with questions regarding their professional responsibilities can contact the Utah State Bar General Counsel’s office for informal guidance during any business day. The email is ethicshotline@utahbar.org. All ethics advice is non-binding and intended only to be informational. Please note that your question will be answered in the order received. Please allow for 24-48 hours for us to respond.
The Ethics Hotline advises only on the inquiring lawyer’s or LPP’s own prospective conduct. The Ethics Hotline does not address legal issues, or past conduct, nor does it provide an opinion or advice about the conduct of anyone other than the inquiring lawyer or LPP. The Ethics Hotline cannot convey advice through a paralegal or other assistant.
The General Counsel’s Office can help you identify applicable disciplinary rules, point out relevant formal ethics opinions and other resource material, and give you a reaction to your ethics question. No attorney-client relationship is established between lawyers or LPPs seeking ethics advice and the lawyers employed by the Utah State Bar.
Inquiring attorneys or LPPs must be able to state their ethical question concisely and have an awareness of the controlling Rule of Professional Conduct. The guidance provided is informal advice and attorneys and LPPs are urged to read the rules and exercise their own judgement.
Attorneys and LPPs seeking a formal ethics opinion should contact the Ethics Advisory Opinion Committee here: https://www.utahbar.org/bar-committee-ethics-advisory-opinions/