bob wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 10:33 am
Maybenaut wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 9:14 am
I mean, some decisions belong to the client, but the client can’t
force an attorney to do anything the attorney thinks is frivolous.
Conversely, an attorney could give private advice (ie, just return the damn documents!), but have that advice ignored, choose not to withdraw, and then publicly zealously advocate contrary to the privately proffered but rejected advice.
Nonetheless, there's a way to do that without frivolity and ethical concerns. Yet here we are.
See, that’s the part I don’t get.
Trump: I want you to file a motion seeking [insert frivolous idea here].
Attorney: I can’t do that for the following 10 reasons.
Trump: I don’t care. Do it anyway.
Attorney: OK.
I get the part about recalcitrant clients not following your advice, and being left with the fallout. What I don’t get is attorneys who take the frivolous route because the client insists on it.
It’s a world gone mad.
"Hey! We left this England place because it was bogus, and if we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto, we'll just be bogus too!" -- Thomas Jefferson