Professional Responsibility Computer Assisted Lessons: Exceptions to the Ethical Duty of Confidentiality Designed to Protect Third Persons from Harm
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Document Type
Lesson
Abstract
This lesson explores the exceptions to an attorney's ethical duty of confidentiality that are designed to protect third persons from death, injury or financial loss. The lesson examines these exceptions as expressed by the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct and notes some of the variations on these rules found among the states.
Publication Title
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction
Recommended Citation
Barbara Glesner Fines,
Professional Responsibility Computer Assisted Lessons: Exceptions to the Ethical Duty of Confidentiality Designed to Protect Third Persons from Harm,
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction
(2020).
Available at:
https://irlaw.umkc.edu/faculty_works/824