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Drunk In The Serbonian Bog: Intoxicated Drivers' Deaths As Insurance Accidents, Douglas R. Richmond

Seattle University Law Review

Part II of this Article briefly sketches the overall ethical framework under the ABA Model Rules and the ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility, including the proscription on deceit and misrepresentation in Model Rule 8.4 and the ban on attorney contact with represented adverse parties in Model Rule 4.2. Part Ill describes the jurisdictions that have declined to create status-based exceptions to Model Rule 8.4, and the nationwide uproar created when the Oregon Supreme Court initially refused to permit undercover investigations involving any deception— including investigations by law enforcement personnel. That Part will also trace the subsequent adoption of a …