Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Oct. 3, 2019
Legal ethics: from the White House to the doghouse
Politics aside, how far is a lawyer permitted ethically to go in assisting a client?
A. Marco Turk
Emeritus Professor
CSU Dominguez Hills
Email: amarcoturk.commentary@gmail.com
A. Marco Turk is a contributing writer, professor emeritus and former director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding program at CSU Dominguez Hills, and currently adjunct professor of law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.
How far is a lawyer permitted ethically to go in assisting a client? Politics aside, this is the big question presented by what has been going on regarding the frantic efforts of White House lawyers to (1) lock down a transcript of a call in which President Donald Trump allegedly sought assistance from the president of the Ukraine to benefit Trump in the upcoming 2020 election, disclosed by a whistleblower; and, (2) delay the delivery of th...
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