When Atty Ethics Violations Give Rise To Causes Of Action

By Brian Faughnan ( November 3, 2025, 2:18 PM EST) -- You can wake most ethics lawyers up in the middle of the night to ask them whether a violation of the attorney ethics rules provides a cause of action, and they'd be able to answer off the top of their head by either quoting from, or at least pointing you to, their jurisdiction's version of the "Scope" section of the Rules of Professional Conduct....

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