Ethics
Kelly Franco
Student ID number: 4194960
Paralegal Ethics
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1. When an attorney agrees to represent a client the attorney and the client create a responsibility of confidentiality. This is so that the client can feel free to speak about all the facts of the case with the lawyer without fear of repercussion. After the case is over this responsibility of confidentiality does not end. Is as if we would say that after a patient walks out of the doctors office the doctor is now able to talk about the patients health problems freely with others. In order for an attorney to speak about confidences of a client in a book an attorney must be granted consent by the client and or the identity of the client nor anything that identifies a client can be directed in the book towards the true client.
2. If I lived in a jurisdiction that followed the model rules of professional conduct, it would be my ethical duty to report the probability of this client harming his sister. It is the ethical responsibility that unless great danger or harm to oneself or others can be avoided by revealing the information must remain confidential.
3. Since the Smith’s are going through a divorce and I have the responsibility of keeping the information of my client confidential, The accountant calling in regards of the income tax files will have to try and get the information from Mr. Smith himself. There is no way that I can verify that this is truly the accountant of Mr. Smith. The only person that can ask for their files at that point in time would be Mr. Smith himself.
4. Clients lie all the time while under oath. It is not the lawyer’s responsibility to bring this to the courts light. It is the responsibility of the lawyer to not deceit the court while representing the client and presenting the evidence at hand.
7. The client- attorney privilege only protects the essence of a communication made in confidence between a client and a lawyer when the client is seeking legal advice or
Student ID number: 4194960
Paralegal Ethics
Page 78
1. When an attorney agrees to represent a client the attorney and the client create a responsibility of confidentiality. This is so that the client can feel free to speak about all the facts of the case with the lawyer without fear of repercussion. After the case is over this responsibility of confidentiality does not end. Is as if we would say that after a patient walks out of the doctors office the doctor is now able to talk about the patients health problems freely with others. In order for an attorney to speak about confidences of a client in a book an attorney must be granted consent by the client and or the identity of the client nor anything that identifies a client can be directed in the book towards the true client.
2. If I lived in a jurisdiction that followed the model rules of professional conduct, it would be my ethical duty to report the probability of this client harming his sister. It is the ethical responsibility that unless great danger or harm to oneself or others can be avoided by revealing the information must remain confidential.
3. Since the Smith’s are going through a divorce and I have the responsibility of keeping the information of my client confidential, The accountant calling in regards of the income tax files will have to try and get the information from Mr. Smith himself. There is no way that I can verify that this is truly the accountant of Mr. Smith. The only person that can ask for their files at that point in time would be Mr. Smith himself.
4. Clients lie all the time while under oath. It is not the lawyer’s responsibility to bring this to the courts light. It is the responsibility of the lawyer to not deceit the court while representing the client and presenting the evidence at hand.
7. The client- attorney privilege only protects the essence of a communication made in confidence between a client and a lawyer when the client is seeking legal advice or