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        Texas Legal Opinion Report and Supplements

        Texas Legal Opinion Report and Supplements

        STATEMENT OF OPINION PRACTICES

        The Legal Opinions Committee of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section and the Working Group on Legal Opinions Foundation have sponsored a project to formulate a Statement of Opinion Practices relating to legal opinions, and the resulting Statement has recently been approved by the Governing Council of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas and by certain bar groups in other states.  You can read the Statement here,  together with the related Core Opinion Principles and an Explanatory Note that provides some additional information regarding the Statement

        Core Opinion Principles

        [As approved by the Legal Opinions Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association on September 14, 2018 and the Board of the Working Group on Legal Opinions Foundation on Oc-tober 29, 2018, and distributed to other bar groups and interested parties for approval]

        Explanatory Note

        Status of the Committee Reports

        The following are links to works by the Legal Opinions Committee

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