Human Nature and Moral Responsibility in Lawyer-Client Relationships

responsibility of resigned lawyer against damages incomed to client

power of attorney is a voidable contract, and article 678 of civil law involves: power of attorney is being terminated, because of client's dethrone or lawyer's resignation. according to jurisprudential texts, the lawyer is trustee and will not be responsible unless in case of abuse or wastage. the important question is that: whether lawyer can resign without considering client's...

Exploring Lawyer–Client Interaction

Personal injury victims involved in compensation processes have a worse recovery than those not involved in compensation processes. One predictor for worse recovery is lawyer engagement. As some people argue that this negative relation between lawyer engagement and recovery may be explained by lawyers' attitude and communications to clients, it seems important to investigate lawyer-client inter...

Prohibiting lawyer-client sex.

Psychotherapists' and physicians' sexual contact with their patients has been long held as unethical conduct. However, lawyers' sexual contact with clients has been largely ignored in the professional literature. This article uniquely anatomizes the similarities in the vulnerabilities and power imbalances that exist between psychotherapists' and lawyers' relationships with patients/clients. The...

Lawyer Professional Responsibility in Litigation

Client-Lawyer Relationship

[1] Loyalty and independent judgment are essential elements in the lawyer's relationship to a client. Concurrent conflicts of interest can arise from the lawyer's responsibilities to another client, a former client or a third person or from the lawyer's own interests. For specific Rules regarding certain concurrent conflicts of interest, see Rule 1.8. For former client conflicts of interest, se...