Law Students

Things I am learning for the MPRE this Saturday:

• Client consent cannot shield an incompetent attorney.
• Confidences and secrets are different things. Apparently its ok to spill one of them.
• I am taking the exam in a state that requires me to be really ethical... like "85" ethical.
• If a client leaves heroin in your office after telling you its anxiety medicine, you can totally tell the cops its his heroin when you're arrested for "knowingly possessing heroin."
• Also, don't let clients leave heroin in your office, because sometimes drug sniffing dogs just randomly search law offices.
• Once you're a lawyer, you're subject to these rules for life. Even if you quit the law and open an art gallery.
• The payer of the fees (when different from the client) cannot interfere with a lawyer's independent judgment... I wonder if that applies if the lawyer is boinking the payer. I wonder if its permissible for the lawyer to boink the payer. I wonder why I am suddenly using boink as a euphemism.
• Also, the boinking the client rule.

Full post as published by Butterflyfish on November 07, 2008 (boomark / email).