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This Isn't Burger King

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

Two recent calls to my office contained the same type of client - "this is how we're going to do things.The first had an employee call and advise that the boss currently had a lawyer but was looking for someone else. The employee refused to disclose the bosses' name because the last (read: one of 12) lawyer contacted his current lawyer and now he thinks his lawyer is upset with him. I advised that anything the boss told me in contemplation of representation was attorney client privileged, but at some point, if hired, I would need to speak to his current lawyer.A couple weeks later, boss calls and begins talking to me. I stop him and ask his name. He refuses to tell me. I explain that I cannot determine whether I have a conflict in accepting representation unless I have his name...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on November 24, 2010 (boomark / email).