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Interesting ethics opinion out of Texas

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The problem is unusually routine PD land.  Client A fingers client B.  The answer as to what should be done and the ethics involved took a recent interesting turn, at least in Texas.   An opinion from the Professional Ethics Committee of the State Bar of Texas appearing in the March 2008 issue of the Texas Bar Journal. I’ll let the 5th Circuit blog take over: Known as “Opinion No. 579,” and issued in November 2007, it addresses a lawyer’s obligations under the Texas ethical rules when a conflict of interest arises between multiple clients of a single public defender organization. Question 1: May a lawyer in a public defender’s office avoid a conflict of interest arising from representation of two different clients by referring one of the clients to another lawyer in the same public defender’s office? The answer: no...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 08, 2008 (boomark / email).