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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 03:46:32 -0400
From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: Lawyers May Reveal Secrets of Clients, Bar Group Rules Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:23:36 +0200 Lawyers May Reveal Secrets of Clients, Bar Group Rules By JONATHAN D. GLATER The New York Times Backers of an initiative to overhaul legal ethics rules, allowing lawyers more leeway to disclose client confidences to prevent fraud, injury or death, won a partial victory at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association in Chicago this week. The House of Delegates, the body that sets policy for the organization, voted 243 to 184 on Monday to approve a proposal allowing lawyers to disclose confidences when doing so prevents "reasonably certain death or substantial bodily harm." But a proposal allowing lawyers to disclose financial fraud by a client if that client was using the lawyer's services to commit the fraud was defeated 255 to 151 yesterday. And its supporters, recognizing they did not have the votes, withdrew a similar proposal that also would have allowed disclosure of confidences under the same circumstances in order to mitigate a financial loss. --SNIP-- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/08/national/08ETHI.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- geoff.goodfellow () iconia com, Prague CZ * tel/mobil +420 (0)603 706 558 "success is getting what you want & happiness is wanting what you get" http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/biztech/articles/17drop.html
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