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NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATIONProfessional
Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #15 - 10/25/1965
(6-65)
Topic: Appearance of Partnership
Digest: Improper for several attorneys who share a suite of offices
to use a firm name and hold themselves out to the public as a
partnership when they are not partners
Canon: None
QUESTION
May several attorneys who share a suite of offices use a firm name
and hold themselves out to the public as a partnership when they are not
in fact partners?
OPINION
The proposed arrangement would be improper. Canon 33 forbids lawyers
to use false, misleading, assumed or trade names. The proposed
partnership name would fall under this ban since it falsely suggests the
existence of a partnership when there is none and in addition the name
would be an assumed or trade name. See Opinion No, 607 of the Committee
on Professional Ethics of The Association of the Bar of the City of New
York.
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