Advisory Opinion: 1061A

Year Issued: 1986

RPC(s): Formal Opinion 171

Subject: ARCHIVED - Employment of disbarred attorney

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As you know, having been in attendance at the Rules of Professional Conduct Committee meeting, the Committee declined to reconsider Formal Opinion 171.

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