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FORMAL ADVISORY OPINION 05-4.

No. S06U0797.

642 S.E.2d 686 (2007)

FORMAL ADVISORY OPINION 05-4.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

March 19, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Smith, III, General Counsel, State Bar of Georgia, for Appellant.

PER CURIAM.

We granted a petition for discretionary review brought by the State Bar of Georgia asking the Court to adopt an opinion of the Formal Advisory Opinion Board ("board"). At issue is Formal Advisory Opinion ("FAO") 05-4, which is a redrafted version of FAO 91-3. Although both FAO 91-3 and FAO 05-4 address the ethical propriety of a lawyer paying nonlawyer employees a monthly bonus from the gross proceeds of the lawyer's firm, the board reached contrary conclusions...

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