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My mother, my client: your brother wants you to prepare his "simple" will. Your college roommate wants you to handle her real estate closing. Should you do it? Probably not, ethics experts and seasoned lawyers say.

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Whatever your field of practice, whatever your practice setting, it's surely happened to you: a family member or close friend calls you for advice about a legal matter. Indeed, experienced lawyers and consultants warn law students and others considering opening their own practices that family members and close friends may be their only clients for a while. After all, "you sure won't get business from your enemies," Ogle county sole practitioner maria Berger observes.

Maybe your brother and his wife run a terrific bistro in your area, which you patronize on a regular basis. Brother and wife have decided to expand and wish to retain your services ...

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