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Confidentiality in a Joint Representation: What You Can and Cannot Disclose

 
Understanding joint representation and confidentiality issues can be a bit difficult. Attorneys must disclose any relevant information to their clients, regardless if it came from an outside source or an existing client; but being that joint representation alone doesn't constitute the right to share secrets from one client to another without authorization from the disclosing client, this puts the lawyer in a conundrum.

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Michael P. Downey

Michael P. Downey

Downey Law Group LLC

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Michael P. Downey

Michael P. Downey

Downey Law Group LLC

  • Legal ethics lawyer and founder of Downey Law Group LLC, a law firm devoted to legal ethics, law firm risk management, and the law of lawyering
  • Regularly represents lawyers, their clients, judges, and other professionals in high stakes and complex civil litigation and disciplinary proceedings; also serves as outside general counsel to numerous law firms
  • Expert witness providing testimony on legal ethics and law firm practice issues in Missouri, Kansas, and the District of Columbia
  • Adjunct professor teaching legal ethics at Washington University School of Law and St. Louis University School of Law
  • Immediate past chair, ABA Law Practice Division
  • Past Member of ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20’s Ethics & Technology Task Force
  • Has written more than 100 articles and presented 250 times on legal ethics, including in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada; also wrote the book Introduction to Law Firm Practice (ABA LPM 2010)
  • J.D. degree, Washington University School of Law, graduated first in his class; B.A. degree in classics (humanities), cum laude, Georgetown University

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