LAW 680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Truth Function, Paralegal, Perjury
9 Jun 2020
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1: you have a duty to maintain confidence according to model rule 1. 6; Cannot tell anyone, including bar examiners unless client consents and unless exceptions under 1. 6 apply: 1. 5(b) makes clear that there duty to confidentiality trumps duty to tell bar examiners wrong rule. Bar admission the most common reason for failing admission is lack of candor on the bar examination: bar examiners feel that is most reliable predictor. If examiner feels that you lied intentionally then you will be more likely denied admission: so the cover up of lies is worse than telling the bar outright in the. Protecting the larger public- general deterrence : states that these are not meant to be punishment. Is this going on: only tangible thing he suffered, can"t practice for five years, avoided impeachment conviction, oic, paula. Jones: but this is not the purpose, why wasn"t clinton charged under 8. 4(c) rather than (d) .
