Download This PaperThe Client Who Did Too Much
14 Pages Posted: 22 Mar 2014 Last revised: 23 Mar 2014
Date Written: 2014
Abstract
Using Hitchcock's MacGuffin as a theme, I discuss the dynamics between client and lawyer when the client so obsesses over the issue driving him that he persuades (or attempts to persuade) the lawyer to do things that are inadvisable from the lawyer's point of view.
Keywords: lawyers, attorneys, legal ethics, professional responsibility, law and psychology, fees, reasonable fees, Hitchcock
JEL Classification: K00, K1, K10, K19, K29, K39, K2, K3, K4, K40, K49, L20, L89, M20
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Rapoport, Nancy B., The Client Who Did Too Much (2014). Akron Law Review, Vol. 47, 2014, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2412496
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