Ethics Opinion 1EG: Withdrawn (Business Cards and Letterheads, 07/31/53)

The Committee has been asked to pass upon the propriety of the following language used by an attorney on business cards, letterheads, and envelopes:

Attention is called to the following language in Opinion No. 272 of the Committee on Professional Ethics and Grievances of the American Bar Association:

We are all confident that a lawyer could not, as a practical matter, carry on an independent accounting business from his law office without violating Canon 27.

The Committee all agree that a lawyer who is also a C.P.A. may perform what are primarily accounting services, as an incident to his law practice, without violating our canons. We are also agreed that he may not properly hold himself out as practicing accounting at the same office as that in which he practices law. . . .

The Committee is in agreement with the language above quoted and considers it controlling.