Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Jan. 29, 2009
Mixing Client, Business Ends Badly
If you are developing a particularly close relationship with your client - close enough to consider going into business together - take note. "It's hard for a lawyer to be in a business relationship without it being taken as legal advice," warns legal ethics expert Robert Kehr. "If the situation is not perfectly clear, it's the lawyer who is going to bear the burden."
Daily Journal Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - If you are developing a particularly close relationship with your client - close enough to consider going into business together - here's a cautionary tale. One San Francisco Bay Area lawyer who tried that recently came up empty handed. San Mateo County businessman Karl Bakhtiari first went to sole practitioner R. Thomas Fair in 1989 to seek legal advice regarding his real estate i...
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