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Toward a Revised 4.2 No-Contact Rule

Hazard, Geoffrey
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Irwin, Dana
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In our adversarial system of legal representation, ethical rules of attorney conduct focus on protecting the client. Accordingly, the two mainstays of legal ethics are the duties, owed to clients, of loyalty and confidentiality. The duty of loyalty requires lawyers to adopt clients' interests as their own; the duty of confidentiality requires lawyers to keep matters relating to a representation confidential. A lawyer and client can then act together as a close working group, generally governed by principles of agency law.
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/1627