Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Jun. 18, 2009
Who Knows?
For big firms, client conflicts create a murky area for issues of legal malpractice liability, write Scott B. Garner and Isabelle M. Carrillo.
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By Scott B. Garner and Isabelle M. Carrillo When a lawyer practices on his own, he knows what he knows. That is, he either has knowledge about a client or a potential client, or he does not. If that same lawyer joins a large law firm, however, as a matter of law his knowledge base expands exponentially. That is because the lawyer no longer only knows what he knows, but he knows - or is presumed to know - what each of the other lawyer...
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