Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Aug. 23, 2018
Protecting internal communications from disclosure
As soon as something goes wrong in a representation, the first instinct for many attorneys may be to turn to colleagues for advice. Such communications can then serve as Exhibit A for the plaintiff in the subsequent legal malpractice lawsuit.
As soon as something goes wrong in a representation, the first instinct for many attorneys may be to turn to colleagues for advice, reassurance or just to vent. It could be an unexpected adverse development, a threatened claim from a client, or sometimes the attorney just realized that she or he made a mistake. Any of these circumstances could eventually involve an actual legal malpractice claim.
In the immediate aftermath of a probl...
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