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Opinion 01-02 |
Client Files | Client Funds and Property | Withdrawal from Representation
Lawyer may properly terminate representation if client's conduct makes it unreasonably difficult for lawyer to carry out employment effectiveness or client fails to substantially fulfill agreement to pay lawyer's fees or expenses; however, lawyer must take reasonable steps to avoid foreseeable prejudice to client as a result of termination. Discarding client's files if client does not retrieve them after 30 days due notice will not likely comply with lawyer's duty to avoid prejudice to client upon termination of representation.
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Opinion 01-01 |
Client Files | Client Funds and Property | Communication With Client
When a former client is entitled to receive file material from a law firm, a law firm may not refuse a request to download onto disk such former client file materials stored on its computer system when such downloading can be accomplished easily and without disclosing the confidences of the firm's other clients.
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Opinion 95-02 |
Client Files | Law Firms
A lawyer no longer with a law firm may have access to closed files of that firm where the lawyer was in an attorney-client relationship with the client of the file in question.
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Opinion 94-14 |
Client Files
Upon termination of representation, a lawyer is required to return all papers and property received from the client, but may retain copies at the lawyer's expense. If the client requests copies of other parts of the lawyer's file, the lawyer should make copies of those materials in the lawyer's file to which the client is entitled to access available at the client's expense.
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Opinion 94-13 |
Client Files
A lawyer may refuse a client's request for investigative materials prepared by or for the lawyer because, under the facts presented: (1) the materials were the lawyer's property; and (2) disclosure of the materials might harm the client or others.
