Can’t I Tell Them?
The attorney-client privilege deals with communication. By contrast, our confidentiality obligation covers all information acquired in relation to the representation. From whatever source. Even if it’s public.
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Ethical Responsibility for Managing and Supervising Attorneys
The start of a new year offers an opportunity to take stock of where we’ve been over the past twelve months and where we’d like to be at the end of the new year. With 2020 behind us, we hope for a better year in 2021. To be sure, one place we don’t want to be in 2021 is on the wrong side of a disciplinary action!
Judicial Battles Over the Presidential Election: Do Ethical Constraints Apply?
In the past weeks, the Attorneys General of several states, repaired to the courts to challenge (and defend) the presidential election results. Were there ethical constraints on them?
United States District Court and State Bar Discipline
Does discipline in the United States District Court subject a lawyer to State Bar discipline?
Fee Arbitration: Tips and Reminders
If a client chooses to pursue a fee dispute with their current or former attorney, the client may compel the attorney to participate in mandatory fee dispute arbitration.
Legal Ethics in the Age of the Coronavirus
The coronavirus has caused massive disruption and created a potential minefield for D.C. lawyers, who retain all their ethical duties under the Rules of Professional Conduct.
Ethical Considerations Affecting Indemnity Provisions in Settlement Agreements
This article is intended to provide guidance to litigation counsel concerning the payment by a lawyer of costs or expenses incurred by or on behalf of a client that relates to the attorney’s representation of the client.
Straightforward Works Best — in Several Respects
“Tell them the truth. You practice according to the Rules of Professional Conduct — because you have to. And because it’s good for the client, too, in the long run.”
The Ethics of Flat Fee Agreements
How should a lawyer calculate the amount of the unearned fee due to the client where the fee agreement provides for a flat fee paid in advance and the lawyer does not complete all services required under the flat fee agreement?
Three Issues Raised by Opinion No. COPRAC 2019-200
What are a lawyer’s duties when the lawyer suspects, but does not know, a client’s witness who is expected to testify at a civil trial has testified falsely at deposition in the case, albeit favorably, for the lawyer’s client?