I am a young lawyer and I want to make a name for myself in litigation. Can I or my investigator mislead who we are? The litigation involves a house this person lives in with supposed problems. I want either myself or the investigator to pose as a potential buyer, can I do that?
The answer is no. Tricks like that sound good on TV or in movies, but are absolutely totally prohibited in the practice of law and foreign to any ethical lawyer’s trial tools. The days of sending an investigator as a delivery man to see if the disabled person will pick up the box being delivered or misleading a witness as to the purpose of a visit are just not acceptable.
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