It’s October and while we miss the summer, we’re enjoying the turn of the seasons. The blistering heat has abated and the Phillies’ slump seems like a distant memory.
But while we were busy fretting over line-up cards and disabled lists, the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility was hard at work. In fact, the committee issued Formal Opinion 10-456, which considers the issue of whether a criminal defense attorney is permitted to disclose confidential information relating to his or her prior representation of a criminal defendant to assist government lawyers in establishing that the attorney’s representation was not ineffective.
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