The Supreme Court has granted the NJSBA’s motion for a stay of enforcement of Opinion No. 745 of the Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics.
In June, the BCBA joined the NJSBA and several other local and affinity bar associations in a Petition for Review of Opinion 745 of the Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics. That Opinion addressed the long-standing practices of trial attorneys who are certified pursuant to Court Rule 1:39, et seq. Specifically, the Opinion provided that New Jersey-certified attorneys could not pay referral fees to out-of-state attorneys who referred cases for their specific area of expertise.