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ABAJ: Bankruptcy court: It's not a lawyer's job to be servile to the client's wishes

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

On ABAJournal.com: Bankruptcy Judge Sanctions Lawyer, Warns About Being ‘Sequaciously Servile’. The moral: Just because a client tells you something is fact, you shouldn't uncritically believe it. It is not a lawyer's job to act like a butler indulging every client whim. In this case, the lawyer's unfailingly believing the client ended up wasting a lot of money for opposing counsel, and the lawyer was sanctioned. Quoting an earlier opinion, Markell said lawyers should not succumb to a "butler-style" of legal representation where the "sequaciously servile lawyer does whatever the client wants and then cites that client's command as a shield to the improper actions." "Lawyers are not given the privilege of assuming that their clients or other lawyers are unfailingly truthful,” he wrote.continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on November 19, 2010 (boomark / email).