Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Dec. 2, 2000
Ethics En Masse
While attorneys and legislators ponder the issue of class-action abuse and whether the problems are so widespread that reform is needed, few face an indisputable, underlying problem inherent in the class-action device itself: its conflict with the rules of professional conduct.
Deborah R. Rosenthal
While attorneys and legislators ponder the issue of class-action abuse and whether the problems are so widespread that reform is needed, few face an indisputable, underlying problem inherent in the class-action device itself: its conflict with the rules of professional conduct.
At the outset, some uncertainty exists in defining the lawyer-client relationship in the class-action context. San Francisco attorney and legal ethics professor Richard A. Zitrin observes that, although cla...
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