IP: Lawyers May Reveal Secrets of Clients, Bar Group Rules

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 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
>
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