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Shifting Paradigms Of Lawyer Honesty, John A. Humbach
Shifting Paradigms Of Lawyer Honesty, John A. Humbach
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The Model Rules currently contain at least four distinct conceptions of what it means for a lawyer to be honest. Moreover, the levels of honesty that the ethical rules demand have changed markedly in recent times. This article explores why, for the lawyers of today, being “honest” seems to be so complicated.
The exploration begins by reviewing recent changes in the honesty concepts embodied in the Model Rules, particularly the new duty to reveal confidential information that lawyers have under Rule 4.1. Attention then turns to what it means to be “honest” in the context of our modern exaggerated version …