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An Attorney's Ethical Obligations to the Client in Third-Party Funded Litigation

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The landscape of legal practice has significantly changed due to the proliferation of third-party litigation funding, a financial mechanism that provides capital to plaintiffs, including patent owners, in exchange for an...more

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Final Ethics Opinion Guides Lawyers on Clients with Diminished Capacity

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We wrote last July about a draft California ethics opinion regarding clients who may have diminished mental capacity. After receiving public comment, the State Bar’s Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and...more

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