Perspective
Apr. 14, 2011
You’re Right Until You’re Wrong
A recent change to the "seven-day rule" demonstrates how sound advice can become bad advice. By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Ryan McEachern of the Law Office of Mitchell A. Jacobs.
As legal practitioners, many of us have faced the scenario where we have provided advice to a client, based upon the clear language of a statute and the general understanding of practicing lawyers and judges, only to have that advice deemed incorrect by a later case. It is much rarer that the matter in which we provide the advice is the very case that made it incorrect.
In the recent matter of Faso v. Caldwel...
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