What are the ethical violations

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Law firm Dewey, Cheatham and Howe are in the market for more clients. An ad that contains the following text:

LOWEST RATES IN TOWN! WE GUARANTEE YOU WIN! GUILTY? WE DON'T CARE! WE DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO GET YOU $$$$$. Retain us and we pay all your expenses. Recommend us to your friends and we will give you a $20 gas card for every client that retains us! Call NOW!

Managing partner Dewey has this text and the accompanying ad (a picture of a man holding a stack of cash but no other text) printed on flyers. He gives them to Paralegal Anderson and has Anderson do the following:

Distribute them at the local hospital ER waiting room
Leave some at several auto body shops around town
Mail them to all of the survivors and next of kin in a bad bus accident that occurred last week, and
Mail them to every known client of the firm's biggest competitor.

What are the ethical violations?

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