Law firms often need to maintain “walls” between client information and attorneys to comply with professional rules or client requirements. For example, when an attorney joining the firm has prior knowledge of a party adverse to one of the firms existing clients, that attorney must be prohibited from accessing that client’s information. Ideally, these “ethical walls” would be “exclusionary,” where the attorney in question is explicitly prevented from accessing the client’s information while other attorneys are allowed access.
In other instances, a client may specify that only certain firm personnel should have access to documents and other information relating to a particular matter. Such walls are said to be “inclusionary” where a named set of individuals are given explicit access to a given set of documents.
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