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ETHICS OPINION 212-1923
ETHICS OPINION 212
NUMBER 212 1923
Question. We employ a clerk who is not an attorney to take care of our commercial collection department, under our supervision. We receive daily a number of telephone calls and inquiries regarding such cases, and in order to identify the person in charge and relieve ourselves of confusion, we are considering the advisability of printing a card and having an appropriate note on our stationery somewhat as follows:
[Telephone]
A_______ and B.________
Counsellors at Law
[Address]
Commercial Dept.
________ Mgr.
In the opinion of the Committee is such a card objectionable?
Answer. In the opinion of the Committee, the cards or stationery of a law firm should not represent a layman as conducting or managing a department of the lawyer’s professional business; it lends itself too readily to the solicitation of employment or the using of it for advertising purposes by the layman so employed.