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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Apr. 29, 2016

An attorney's duty to supervise

Within the grand architecture of legal ethics, the attorney's duty to supervise subordinates might be compared to a prosaic cornerstone. By David S. Carr and Heather Rosing

By David C. Carr and Heather L. Rosing

Within the grand architecture of legal ethics, the attorney's duty to supervise subordinates might be compared to a prosaic cornerstone. While topics like conflicts and advertising might seem more esoteric and challenging, like flying buttresses and filigreed windows, this sturdy mainstay anchors the entire structure.

Something so fundamental would seem to have been enshrined in our law of ethics a l...

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