Supreme Court of Georgia
in Re: Formal Advisory Opinion No. 20-1
May 3, 2022313 Ga. 803
Summary
The Supreme Court of Georgia reviewed a petition for discretionary review of Formal Advisory Opinion 20-1 and approved it, thereby replacing FAO 94-3. The Court held that a lawyer may communicate with a former employee of a represented organization without the organization’s counsel’s consent, so long as the lawyer makes full disclosures, obtains the former employee’s consent, avoids privileged information, and respects the former employee’s own representation.