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...revised standards. The effort soon struck a reef of controversy over the confidentiality issue. The commission had recommended that attorneys be permitted to disclose certain contemplated illegal actions of clients, such as offering fraudulent stock or planning a bribe. The proposal was voted down at the association's midyear meeting last February. Reformers within the tradition-bound A.B.A. had to take half-a-loaf satisfaction from a compromise last week that would allow attorneys to withdraw if their clients are using them in unlawful schemes; they may also announce their resignation from the case. Said Yale Law Professor Geoffrey...
...friend called me up needing help. Did I have any foolproof methods for waking up in the morning, he asked. When I suggested that he use an alarm, he called me hard-hearted and insensitive. It seemed he was in serious trouble: he had slept through two finals at midyear, losing all credibility with UHS. "I don't necessarily want to take my midterms--I just have to be awake to attend them," he told...
...states, an attorney might choose to persuade the client to abandon any unlawful scheme, or he might stop representing him. Finally the lawyer probably has the option of informing authorities about his client's plans without violating the rules of confidentiality. At the American Bar Association's midyear meeting in New Orleans last week, the policymaking House of Delegates was asked to approve new standards specifying situations that could call for such disclosure. Instead, by a surprising vote of 207 to 129, the delegates barred disclosure unless the crime is "likely to result in imminent death or substantial...
...seminar is the kind of orientation we would have liked to have when we came in," Howard said. He explained that he chose to hold the program at midyear so that the participants could better appreciate the group's advice, having gone through exams and received their first college grades...
Their loans to developing nations and the East bloc now amount to about $130 billion, including $68 billion to Latin American and Caribbean countries. At midyear $52 billion had been loaned to Mexico, Argentina and Brazil alone...