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Candor to the Court

By Francis Pileggi on January 20, 2020
Posted in Selected Articles by Francis

In my recent ethics column for The Bencher, the publication of the American Inn of Courts (that I have been writing for over 20 years), I discuss the duty of candor to the court that lawyers have, and how that interfaces with the duty of confidentiality owed to clients.

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