Proposed ethics opinion on reporting malpractice proves controversial 

Posted: 1:00 am Mon, July 13, 2009
By Barbara L. Jones

A proposed ethics opinion drafted to clarify when attorneys should report their own potential malpractice to clients raises more questions than it answers, according to ethics experts who spoke with Minnesota Lawyer.Proposed Opinion 21 provides that lawyers who know that their conduct could reasonably be expected to be the basis for a malpractice claim by ...