ABA Client Secrecy Proposal Is Withdrawn
From Times Wire Reports
A sweeping overhaul of the legal ethics code for lawyers faltered in the governing body of the American Bar Assn., as opponents argued that the nation’s largest lawyers’ group risked violating the trust between lawyers and clients.
Facing likely defeat in the ABA’s policymaking wing, lawyers who backed the proposal withdrew the most contentious issue.
The proposed change would have given lawyers more latitude to report wrongdoing by their clients.
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