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Illinois Lawyer Investigations Of Current Client Concerns, Jeffrey A. Parness
Illinois Lawyer Investigations Of Current Client Concerns, Jeffrey A. Parness
Northern Illinois University Law Review
When questions are raised by a current client regarding an attorney’s representation of the client, the questioned attorney should be able to seek counsel confidentially. Such a conferral will often benefit the attorney, the firm and the client. Advice regarding questioned conduct should be encouraged, not discouraged. To prompt such conferrals, an attorney-client communication and a work product privilege should be available in Illinois, with availability not dependent upon whether in-house, outside or other attorneys are sought for counsel. While early federal precedents were split, increasingly under other state high court precedents the attorney-client communication privilege is available. Its recognition …