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"Always assume that the client is recording you"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

I've been saying this publicly for over 20 years: § 1:1, Rule 5: Say nothing or do nothing that you would be afraid to read about in the newspaper or in a transcript or hear in a courtroom some day. . . . b. Always assume that the client is recording you. See Philadephia Daily News two days ago: 17 rounded up as part of 'Operation Delco Nostra', where a lawyer was recorded by a client and arrested for conspiracy to commit perjury: When Monacello realized he and others were under investigation, he asked his attorney Gregory Quigley to meet with an associate who received a grand-jury subpoena at his law firm last Jan. 8. Prepping him on how to lie, Quigley instructed the witness: "You have six options before you lie: yes, no, I don't know, I don't recall, [the] Fifth, lie...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on July 26, 2008 (boomark / email).