Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Feb. 21, 2015
Ethics opinion explores how to withdraw without revealing client confidences
Attorneys caught between an ethical demand to withdraw from a case and a court order to disclose the confidential reasons must do the best they can, a new State Bar ethics opinion concludes.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Sometimes, an attorney just needs to get out of a case. Maybe a conflict of interest crops up or the client announces a plan to do something illegal. Maybe it's a matter of not being paid.
Typically, the judge will allow the attorney to withdraw. But now and then, the judge wants to know why. If the explanation requires disclosing client confidences, the judge's order poses a very big p...
For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
Receive unlimited article access and full access to our archives,
Daily Appellate Report, award winning columns, and our
Verdicts and Settlements.
Or
$795 for an entire year!
Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)
Already a subscriber?
Sign In