I feel someone may have been wrongly convicted of a crime and I think that person has some valid legal issues. I cannot take on the case, but I am going to ghostwrite a PCRA petition and brief. Do I have to disclose I did this?
Some courts have taken a very dim view of lawyers “ghostwriting” client’s pleadings and an article appeared on this subject in the Spring 2010 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics.
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