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| | Non-Competes Stricken for In-House Counsel |
 | | Rule 1:27-2, part of a package that permits multijurisdictional practice, allowed in-house counsel to engage in transactional work without taking the state bar exam, but they had to obtain a limited license that required a character background check and had to agree to be subject to the state's ethics and discipline system. |
 | | Yet the committee said the result it reached was consistent with every other state and local committee that had studied the applicability of RPC 5.6 to in-house counsel, and it cited opinions from Virginia, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington state, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. |
 | | David Machlowitz, general counsel at Medco Health Solutions Inc. in Franklin Lakes, says, "It is always good to have a clear, definitive opinion to resolve uncertainty, and this opinion resolves the debate. |
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