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See, e.g., Jennifer Smith, In Email, Scammers
Take Aim at Lawyers, Wall St. J. (Aug. 5, 2012,
7:09 PM),
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1000087239639
0443517104577571453933076304 (“Law firms
are becoming top prey for email scammers who
exploit lawyers’ eagerness to take on new clients
through the Internet.”).
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See N.Y.C. Bar Ass’n Comm. on Prof’l Ethics, Formal Op. 2015-3 (2015) (discussing lawyers who fall victim to Internet scams), http://
www.nycbar.org/ethics/ethics-opinions-local/2015 opinions/2161-formal-opinion-2015-3lawyers-who-fall-victim-to-internet-scams (outlining steps that can be taken to avoid being a
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