Two bar group ethics opinions issued last month carve out a middle ground permitting lawyers to correct false testimony without revealing client confidences. The opinions, which allow lawyers to withdraw the false testimony, address recent appellate division rules spelling out lawyer obligations when they learn of prior false testimony.
Opinions from the New York County Lawyers’ Association and the New York State Bar Association respond to the most sweeping change in the new compilation of ethics rules put into place in 2009 by the four Appellate Division departments. The new rules mirror the format of the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
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