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E MERUENCY ORDER 214 Cite af, 363 Ark: 214 (2005) [363 EMERGENCY ORDER PERMITTING LAWYERS DISPLACED BY HURRICANE KATRINA TO CONTINUE REPRESENTING CLIENTS-FROM TEMPORARY OFFICES IN ARKANSAS 05-973 212 S:W3d Supreme Court ofArkansas Opinion dehvered September 9, 2005 ATTORNEY & CLIENT HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF OF DER FOP. ATTORNEYS FROM LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, OR ALABAMA Pursuant to Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct 5,5 and 8,5, and until further order, an attorney holding a valid law license issued by LOuisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama, who is in good standing with the attorney's respective state bar, and who is displaced from their home junsdiction due to Hurricane Katnna, is permitted to pratice law for 60 days from the date ofthis order from a location in Arkansas as if the attorney were located in the state in which the attorney is hcensed, Albert Glenn Vasser and James Daniel Sprott, for petitioner, the Arkansas Bar Association pER CURIAM. [1] Upon petition by the Arkansas Bar Association and pursuant to Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct 5.5 and 85, and until further order of this Court, an attorney holding a valid law license issued by Louisiana, Mississippi, or Ala-bama, who is in good standing with the attorney's respective state bar,
ARK ] 215 and who is displaced from the attorney's home jurisdiction due to Hurricane Katrina, is permitted to practice law for 60 days from the date of this order from a location in Arkansas as if the attorney were located in the state in which the attorney is licensed It is so ordered:
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