While most people still admire attorneys for our professional status, our earning potential and our social stature, many of us are dissatisfied, disenchanted or bored with the practice of law.
We hear constant chatter among colleagues about leaving the profession. Our friends and former office mates are branching out or shifting gears. But, for those attorneys who try their hands at business, special rules apply. Violating those rules may result in ethical violations and worse. This column looks at what lawyers need to know when they go into a business other than lawyering.
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