Opinion ID: 1726998
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Heading Rank: 52

Heading: Appointment of Counsel to Protect Clients' Interests When an Attorney is Transferred to Disability Inactive Status Because of Incapacity or Disability, or He Disappears or Dies, or is Suspended or Disbarred

Text: 22.1 Whenever an attorney has been transferred to disability inactive status because of incapacity or disability, or he has disappeared or died, or has been suspended or disbarred and there is evidence that he has not complied with Section 18, and no partner, executor or other responsible party capable of conducting the attorney's affairs is known to exist, the senior judge in the judicial circuit, in which the attorney maintained his practice upon proper proof of the fact, shall appoint an attorney or attorneys to inventory the files of the inactive, disappeared, deceased, suspended or disbarred attorney and to take such action as seems indicated to protect the interests of the attorney and his clients. 22.2 Any attorney so appointed shall not be permitted to disclose any information contained in any files so inventoried without the consent of the client to whom such file relates, except as necessary to carry out the order of the court which appointed the attorney to make such inventory.