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Ethics Committee Urges an End to Common-Law Liens on Client Files

New Jersey Law Journal

November 20, 2012

Over the State Bar Association's resistance, a New Jersey Supreme Court committee is proposing that lawyers no longer be allowed to coax clients to pay legal fees by holding their files or other property hostage.

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