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Perspective

Mar. 16, 2010

Balancing Duty of Loyalty and Free Speech

Tim Reuben of Reuben Raucher & Blum asks what's more important, free speech rights or client loyalty?

By Tim Reuben

What's more important free speech rights or client loyalty? The 2nd Appellate District Court of Appeal struggled with this issue in Oasis West Realty LLC v. Goldman, 2010 DJDAR 3208. The answer is that if the lawyer is very very careful, the First Amendment wins. But should it?

Kenneth Goldman represented Oasis, a developer of the Beverly Hilton hotel site, for over a year and charged a fee of about $60,000. Oasis claimed Goldman was "intimat...

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