Column: Where to draw the ethical line? 

Posted: 1:00 am Mon, February 1, 2010
By Edward Poll

Lawyers are ethically bound to abide by the law and by the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct, which prohibit any “criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects” as well as “conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.” A good recent example ...