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  • 16 minutes

Ethical Traps of a Lying Client - Confidentiality Issues

 
The principle of confidentiality is given effect in two related bodies of law, the attorney-client privilege (which includes the work product doctrine) in the law of evidence and the rule of confidentiality established in professional ethics. Most people perceive the issue of confidentiality, or the requirement of confidentiality, of an attorney as one of its highest obligations towards the client. Certainly it’s part of their fiduciary duties as well as their professional rules of conduct. The rule of confidentiality is much broader than the attorney-client privilege. In this video our speaker, John Snow, reviews Rule 1.6 Confidentiality of Information and the attorney-client privilege, and reviews that several states have not adopted model rule 1.6 and many have adopted a hybrid rule.

John A. Snow is an attorney with Prince Yeates. His practice consists of general civil litigation, including commercial, professional malpractice, construction, insurance coverage and defense. Mr. Snow is designated in The Best Lawyers in America as Lawyer of the Year in litigation, real estate and construction law; and designated as Lawyer of the Law in legal malpractice-defense. He is the chair of the Ethics Advisory Opinion Committee of the Utah State Bar.
Runtime: 15 minutes

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John A. Snow

John A. Snow

Parsons Behle & Latimer