Gilbert Law Summary on Legal Ethics
Author:
Morgan, Thomas D.
Edition:
10th
Copyright Date:
2022
13 chapters
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- This chapter covers the basic rules of running a modern law office. It is hard to think of some of the issues in this chapter as dealing with “ethics” at all, but they are the subject of professional rules that you will need to know and follow. One of the most important aspects of the “business” of practicing law—the charging of legal fees—was addressed earlier in Chapter II of this Summary (
- One of the most controversial issues in legal ethics today is whether and, if so, how lawyers and non-lawyers may associate to deliver legal services. The restrictions on unauthorized practice of law by nonlawyers were discussed in Chapter I of this Summary. [
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- The first ABA model standards were the Canons of Professional Ethics (1908). They were replaced by the ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility, which consisted of aspirational Ethical Considerations and mandatory Disciplinary Rules.
- To Get Legal Advice About Ethics Compliance
- A lawyer may disclose information relating to a client’s representation to get legal advice about what ethics rules require the lawyer to do in a problematic situation.
- A lawyer may not assert or imply an ability to influence a government agency or official improperly or achieve results in a way that would violate the law or legal ethics rules. Model Rule 8.4(e).
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- Many traditional standards of legal ethics are derived from fiduciary duties. Fiduciary duties do not change the contractual character of the lawyer-client relationship, but they mean that departures from a customary contract are likely to be closely scrutinized for fairness.
- Legal ethics has traditionally broken out categories of duties that lawyers owe to clients. Most are derived from principles that apply to fiduciaries generally, and this part of the Summary discusses the duties one by one. But overarching all of them, a lawyer’s obligation to a client is to act in a manner reasonably calculated to advance the client’s lawful objectives as defined by the client. [Restatement § 16(1)]
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- Judges often retire before the end of their career and may even practice or serve as “private judges” after they retire. This makes the ethics of that transition particularly important. Transitioning from work as a government lawyer is the ethical model for judges, not the rules applicable to moving from one private firm to another.
- this principle, apparently in the belief that it is primarily a subject of tort and criminal law rather than a matter of legal ethics, but it is unlikely that the law is really different in Model Rules states. [Restatement § 98, comment f]
- A lawyer must not state or imply that he has the ability to improperly influence a government agency or official or to achieve results by means that violate the law or legal ethics rules. [Model Rule 8.4(e)
- Although the duties of a lawyer to the client are the beginning of any discussion of legal ethics, the law imposes important
- As a matter of legal ethics,
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- In analyzing Legal Ethics problems, it often helps to recognize that lawyers might owe duties to any of several people and institutions. Try to start by asking whether the question relates to the lawyer’s responsibilities to
- A subordinate lawyer will be subject to discipline if he carries out a supervisory lawyer’s order that is a clear ethics violation.
- Partnerships between lawyers and nonlawyers are prohibited if any of the partnership activities include the practice of law. When a lawyer employs nonlawyer assistants, the lawyer must instruct the nonlawyers about legal ethics and should ensure that they act in conformity with professional standards.
- A lawyer may be subject to disbarment, suspension, reprimand, or admonition for a violation of professional ethics.
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- Since it first published its Canons of Professional Ethics in 1908, the ABA has formulated standards of conduct which serve as a guide to state supreme courts in adopting professional regulations. [Restatement § 1, comment b]
- Violation of a professional ethics rule;
- The Restatement’s principal impact has been on courts that cite it when addressing some of the many issues not addressed by state regulatory rules. But the Restatement also had an effect on the ABA itself, which appointed an “Ethics 2000” Commission to consider how the law revealed in the Restatement affected the 1983 ABA Model Rules. That review led to significant changes in the 1983 Model Rules and adoption of the Model Rules reflected in this Summary.
- , courts consider an ethics violation as relevant evidence that a lawyer’s conduct was below the appropriate standard of conduct. The Model Rules now acknowledge that reality. [Model Rules, Scope § 20; Restatement § 52(2)]
- Welcome to the study of a regulated industry. Lawyers act on behalf of clients who need help but who often are not in a position to know whether they have been represented well or badly. Thus, the practice of law is a classic subject for regulation. “Legal Ethics,” “Professional Responsibility,” and “Law Governing Lawyers” are all names given to these regulations. States determine who may become licensed to practice law in the state. They prohibit “unauthorized” practice by those not licensed, and they prescribe the conduct required of lawyers in the course of their practice.
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- Protection of confidential client information is often seen as the most important single obligation of a lawyer, and the principles in this chapter underlie many of the rules found elsewhere in this Summary, such as those in Chapter IV on conflicts of interest, Chapter V on obligations to third parties, and Chapter VI on ethics in litigation.
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- It is a standard principle of agency law that an agent must not use confidential information for the agent’s own gain, and many legal ethics principles are built on the idea that a lawyer is the client’s agent. The question whether a lawyer may make money using information protected by Model Rule 1.6 is one of the relatively few issues on which the Model Rules and the Restatement initially appear to disagree.
- Learn the differences between the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine and the professional duty of confidentiality. Each is fair game for testing in legal ethics courses and on the MPRE. The
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- Publication Date: December 10th, 2021
- ISBN: 9781636591209
- Subject: Professional Responsibility/Ethics
- Series: Gilbert Law Summaries
- Type: Outlines
- Description: This Gilbert Law Summary is designed to serve three groups. The first is law students taking their required course in Professional Responsibility or preparing for the bar-required Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam. Second are persons considering a legal education who want to appreciate what it means to have a law license, what issues lawyers face, and how the law requires lawyers to deal with those issues. Third are lawyers who want a handy place to turn when they face a question in practice and need help finding quick answers and relevant authority to go deeper. Using the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct, and the ALI Restatement (Third): The Law Governing Lawyers as key authorities, the author puts what otherwise could be abstract rules into context in order to illuminate what led to adoption of each rule, why the rules require what they do, and where changes in lawyer regulation may be coming. Substantive issues covered include how a lawyer and a client form their relationship, what fiduciary duties are and which ones a lawyer owes to his or her clients, how a lawyer markets and gets paid for his or her services, and various ways both confidentiality obligations and conflicts of interest can arise. In addition, the author calls attention to a lawyer's obligations to a client's opponents, courts and other tribunals, and the broader public interest, as well as a final chapter on the special responsibilities of judges.