4 Aug
2005
4 Aug
'05
20:54
On Thursday 04 August 2005 3:46 pm, James Knott wrote: > My question is what happens, should the lawyers find out that the client > has lied? That there really is no case? Somehow, I don't get the > impression that David Boies would proceed with a case he knows to be > fraudulent. There are 2 issues here: 1. There is no real case, his clients misled him, but there is no fraud. Here, I think the attorney would be upset, but may carry the case forward, or he may withdraw. 2. The client has provided fraudulent data to the attorney and to the court. In this case, the attorney probably should withdraw from the case, but that might be difficult because of some attorney-client privileges. However, the attorney is an officer of the court, and can get in quite a bit of trouble if he presents knowingly fraudulent data to the court. -- Jerry FeldmanBoston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9