The Law Tribune’s Advisory Board correctly identified one of the important changes in the Rules of Professional Conduct with respect to lawyers’ duties to avoid assisting clients and others in conduct that is either criminal or fraudulent. (See “The Changing Role Of Lawyers,” April 2, 2007, page 22.)
Indeed, many of us who have studied the new regime believe that the rules contain a significant shift in the lawyer/client relationship away from “lawyer as hired gun” and toward “lawyer as professional.”
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