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  • Informal Consultations with Outside Lawyers: How Much Can Be Shared?
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    • Course Number: SOLO_Vol27_No2_2021
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Although most lawyers develop a comfort level with handling certain issues and tasks, from time to time, a client will call with an unusual legal question the lawyer is unfamiliar with or with facts that do not apply easily to the law. Lawyers in a firm can consult with one another on novel legal issues or strange fact patterns. But solo practitioners must go outside their “firm” to talk to other lawyers and even those at multiple-lawyer firms might want to go outside the firm to informally consult with other attorneys. Although this type of consultation is common practice, the California Rules of Professional Conduct1 do not provide a clear basis for permitting informal discussions among lawyers who are not associated; doing so implicates the lawyers’ duty of confidentiality to clients, which is essential to the lawyer-client relationship and the ability of the lawyer to represent the client.

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    Rachelle Cohen Bio

    Rachelle Cohen is a principal at Valensi Rose, PLC in Los Angeles. Her practice focuses on advising on legal ethics issues and assisting clients with their business and personal transactions. Rachelle is a former member of the California Lawyers Association (CLA) Ethics Committee. She also is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the CLA Business Law Section and a former Chair of the CLA’s Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies Committee and Corporations Committee. Rachelle speaks frequently and has written about legal ethics issues and corporate and transactional issues and has been a lecturer at the USC Gould School of Law.

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The Practitioner_Vol. 27 Issue 2_Spring 2021.pdf (4) (465 KB)
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