RST (3d) of the Law Governing Lawyers
§ 20 A Lawyer's Duty to Inform and Consult with a Client
(1) A lawyer must keep a client reasonably informed about the matter and must consult with a client to a reasonable extent concerning decisions to be made by the lawyer under §§ 21-23.
(2) A lawyer must promptly comply with a client's reasonable requests for information.
(3) A lawyer must notify a client of decisions to be made by the client under §§ 21-23 and must explain a matter to the extent reasonably necessary to permit the client to make informed decisions regarding the representation.
§ 21 Allocating the Authority to Decide Between a Client and a Lawyer
As between client and lawyer:
(1) A client and lawyer may agree which
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(4) A lawyer representing a client with diminished capacity as described in Subsection (1) may seek the appointment of a guardian or take other protective action within the scope of the representation when doing so is practical and will advance the client's objectives or interests, determined as stated in Subsection (2).
§ 31 Termination of a Lawyer's Authority
(1) A lawyer must comply with applicable law requiring notice to or permission of a tribunal when terminating a representation and with an order of a tribunal requiring the representation to continue.
(2) Subject to Subsection (1) and § 33, a lawyer's actual authority to represent a client ends when:
(a) the client discharges the lawyer;
(b) the client dies or, in the case of a corporation or similar organization, loses its capacity to function as such;
(c) the lawyer withdraws;
(d) the lawyer dies or becomes physically or mentally incapable of providing representation, is disbarred or suspended from practicing law, or is ordered by a tribunal to cease representing a client; or
(e) the representation ends as provided by contract or because the lawyer has completed the contemplated services.
(3) A lawyer's apparent authority to act for a client with respect to another person ends when the other person knows or should know of facts from which it can be reasonably inferred
If the commercial standards of the relationship between the client and lawyer is to be acknowledged on ethical terms, once the client is in the office, it is contradictory to suggest that the same information is refuted before he arrives. The belief that legal services are exclusive to the individual customer and that pre-recognized fees cannot be decided is refuted by the record, the State Bar advocates a program where legal practitioners implement services like those advertised at fixed rates. The restriction of advertising is only to restrict information to spread to the people of the public. Advertising is the traditional practice of a marketer to familiarize a potential client of the terms of exchange. The disciplinary rule at issue has burden access to public capitalized legal services. Regulations on advertising are an impotent of determining inferior work. An attorney who is predisposed to diminish the quality of his or her’s practice will perform inadequately whether or not the rule of advertising is in place. Most attorneys will perform on good ethics as they consistently have in the past and as they were trained to do by the State Bar of Arizona. They will abide by their oaths. Advertising by lawyers may not be subjected to blanket suppression. Advertising that is false or deceptive is liable to restraint, and there may be restrictions on the specific time and place of its
Wasserstrom also considers the fact that in many situations lawyers have the optional ability to remove themselves form issues that may contradict their individual ethics. "Having once agreed to represent the client, the lawyer in under an obligation to do his or her best to defend that person at trial." With in the process of contracting a lawyer, the lawyer has the option of acceptance or refusal of representing the client. Therefore the lawyer can asses the case and decide if it violates any of their own individual ethics.
When an attorney withdraws of record the attorney terminates a relationship with a client, an attorney may choose to withdraw of record mandatorily or voluntarily. An attorney may decide to exclude themselves on the grounds that they may not be competent enough to pursue the case or the attorneys “professional and public posture”1 is jeopardised. For instance, if the attorney may be engaged in a crisis in which they may not be able to dedicate their attention to the case they may be granted the opportunity to be withdrawn as an attorney of record.
(2) Where in private practice he served as lawyer in the matter in controversy, or a lawyer with whom he previously practiced law served during such association as a lawyer concerning the matter, or the judge or such lawyer has been a material witness concerning it;
Beach J discussed the meaning of Attorney Rules 15 – see [84]. He criticised it as unclear, it seeming to deal only with conflict between duty & interest, not duty & duty.
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