Word: koskoff
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...reformers. Boston Attorney Robert Meserve, who became chairman of the ethics commission after the death last month of Omaha's Robert Kutak, noted that lawyers have been able to (and still can) disclose confidential information from a client in order to recover a fee. But to Theodore Koskoff, past president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, "The philosophy of the proposed code was wrong. The thread that ran through it was of looking at a lawyer not as a champion but as an ombudsman." The adversary system would be undermined if a client hesitates to tell...