The New Jersey Supreme Court is considering whether ethics strictures should be relaxed to facilitate appearances of volunteer lawyers for debtors in bankruptcy cases.
A case argued Tuesday tests whether an attorney can ethically provide pro bono legal services to a debtor in a no-asset Chapter 7 bankruptcy even though the lawyer’s firm represents a creditor of the debtor in an unrelated matter.
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