Court Opinion

ID: 9671457
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:36:56.163958+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:45:11.025421
License: Public Domain

COYNE, Justice
(dissenting).
Although I agree that the Rules of Professional Responsibility do not define “office,” it seems to me that the ordinary use and commonly accepted meaning of “office” suggests a permanency of presence. Surely, one would expect a lawyer’s office to be staffed by a receptionist, a secretary, or a legal assistant to answer the telephone during business hours and to assist a walk-in client.
It may well be that neither the complainant nor any other person has sustained damage by reason of this lawyer’s advertising, but the indication to the reader that this lawyer is the senior or managing partner of a thriving law firm that is so large that it maintains nine offices throughout the metropolitan area seems to me to be misleading and deceptive and, therefore, deserving of admonition. Therefore, I would affirm.