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A-61/62-19

A-61/62-19 In re Opinion No. 735 of the Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics (083396)

May an attorney, consistent with the Rules of Professional Conduct, purchase from an internet search engine company a keyword that is a competitor lawyer’s name in order to display the purchasing lawyer’s own website in the search results when a person searches for the competitor lawyer by name?



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  • Petition for review granted : May 8, 2020
  • Posted: May 8, 2020
  • Argued: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Reargued: Sept. 24, 2024
  • Decided: May 22, 2025