LEO: Confidences and Secrets — Perpetration of LE Op. 699

 

    Confidences and Secrets — Perpetration of Fraud Upon Tribunal.

 

    May 22, 1985

 

    It is not improper for an attorney to request that his client advise the court of the perpetration of the fraud, and upon the client's refusal to do so, to inform the court of the fraud, when the attorney represented the client in a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy and two years later the client informed the attorney of the existence of undisclosed assets including two notes payable to the client by two of the attorney's law partners who have denied the existence of the debts. The attorney may have to withdraw from representation if either the attorney or a member of the law firm will testify with regard to the nondisclosed assets. [DR:4-101(D) (2), DR:5-102]

 

    Committee Opinion May 22, 1985

 

LEO: Confidences and Secrets - Perpetration of, LE Op. 699 (1985)