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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>I represent an engineering firm which is a consultant to a water authority (“owner”). The authority wants the engineering firm to (i) include legal services (contract drafting and review) in its scope of work (ii) hire an owner-designated attorney as a subconsultant to perform these services. [I have asked why the owner can not look to the owner’s current attorney or hire its designated attorney directly to perform these services; apparently there are political reasons for not doing so.] It seems to me that the engineering firm will have problems including legal services in its scope of work even though the legal services are to be performed by an attorney under contract as a subconsultant to the firm. Some possible problems:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:windowtext;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>The engineer’s professional liability insurance covers engineering malpractice, not legal malpractice. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:windowtext;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>The Board of Engineering and/or the Florida Bar may be critical of an engineer who contracts to furnish legal services. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:windowtext;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>There may be attorney-client communications problems or a possible conflict of interest for the attorney.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Have you seen this scenario before? What do you think?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Your input will be much appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Dick Burt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Richard A. 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