CSG’s Blog on Best Practices for Lawyers
Basic rules: when you represent an organization, you must make it clear to employees who wish to retain you that there is a potential conflict of interest. Further, you cannot breach the attorney-client confidentiality by testifying before a grand jury about conversation had with your clients.
How could the General Counsel of Penn State, a…
A California Court ruled that depending on the terms and language of a Settlement Agreement – and whether the attorney signs it for any reason (where the attorney signed as approving to form and content) – an attorney may be bound to the confidentiality provisions contained therein. In Monster Energy Co. v. Schechter, et al…
