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,......-" ~~ No misleading or confusing communications • Ethics Opinion RI-246 • Can't infer multiple offices ifnone ~ Ethics Opinion RI-241 • Can't infer associates if you're the only lawyer >- Ifyou don't have partners, you can't pretend you do. • Matter ofKarlena Zachery, No. 2007-3 (MA, 2007) • Zachery was a sole practitioner who held herself out as firm: "WilliaIns & Zachery." Listed two other attorneys as "ofcounsel" w/o knowledge or pennission
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