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What is the duty to provide competent representation?
The first Rule of Professional Conduct, Rule 1.1, imposes this duty on lawyers.
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What is an unwaivable conflict?
The assertion of a claim by one client against another client constitutes this type of conflict of interest.
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What is Rule 8.3(b)?
This rule obligates lawyers to blow the whistle on federal judges who don’t follow the rules.
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What is the Peer Review Panel?
In the absence of a written complaint, Bar Counsel may not investigate a Wyoming lawyer without prior written authorization from this supervisory committee.
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What is Interest on Lawyers Trust Account?
IOLTA is an acronym for this type of account, the proceeds of which are used to fund public interest causes.
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What is the duty to maintain reasonable communication?
Lawyers who do not return their clients’ phone calls risk violating this duty.
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What is a Chinese Wall?
This imaginary structure is used to shield a lawyer from confidential information possessed by another lawyer in the same firm relating to the second lawyer’s representation of an adverse party.
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What is the duty of candor to the tribunal?
This duty overrides a lawyer’s obligation of confidentiality to the client, and is activated when a lawyer learns that the client has offered false evidence.
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What is the Board of Professional Responsibility?
Before being subjected to discipline of any type, a lawyer has a right to a hearing before this body.
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What is contingent?
Fee agreements of this type must be in writing and comply with special rules of the Wyoming Supreme Court.
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What is commingling?
This term describes the deposit of unearned fees into a lawyer’s operating account.
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What is revocation of the waiver?
This event and its undesirable consequences are always a risk even after clients have signed a waiver of a conflict of interest.
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What is "fitness as a lawyer in other respects?"
A lawyer has a duty to report professional misconduct that raises a substantial question as to another lawyer’s “honesty, trustworthiness” . . . and this.
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What is a private reprimand?
During 2013, 9 Wyoming lawyers were the recipients of this, the least severe form of discipline.
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What are relatives?
Lawyers may not prepare wills that leave themselves bequests except for this category of clients.
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What is communication?
Rule 4.2 prohibits this interaction between a lawyer and a person who is represented by another lawyer.
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What is an issue conflict?
This conflict arises when there is a significant risk that a lawyer’s legal position on behalf of one client will materially limit the lawyer’s effectiveness in representing another client in a different case.
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What is the duty to refrain from unmeritorious claims or contentions?
This duty is violated when a lawyer signs a court document that is not well grounded in fact.
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What is 5 years?
In Wyoming, disbarment is not forever; disbarred Wyoming lawyers may petition for reinstatement after this period of time.
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What are divorces?
Contingent fee agreements are prohibited in criminal matters and civil proceedings of this type.
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What is compensation?
Rule 1.5 prohibits a lawyer from entering into an unreasonable agreement with a client regarding this.
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What is the Rule 1.8(a) prohibition against business transactions with clients?
A lawyer who loans a client money and has the client sign a standard promissory note commits a per se violation of this rule.
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What is the duty to expedite litigation?
This duty may be violated even when it is to the client's benefit to delay proceedings.
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What are costs associated with the disciplinary proceeding?
A lawyer who receives professional discipline must pay a $500 administrative fee and these.
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What is the Unauthorized Practice of Law?
Non-lawyers who share fees with lawyers can find themselves in hot water for this.
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