The Professional Ethics Committee for the State Bar of Texas is accepting public comments on the following proposed ethics opinion:
Proposed Opinion 2025-2 (comment deadline 1/20/2026):
What are the ethical responsibilities of a lawyer who seeks to retain an unaffiliated lawyer to perform a discrete, temporary legal service on behalf of a client, such as appearing at a hearing in a distant city?
What are the ethical responsibilities of the lawyer who agrees to perform the temporary legal service?
Go here to read the proposed opinion and provide comments.