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A client can always be solicited by their lawyer to make a “substantial” gift to the lawyer. This includes a testamentary gift.

Laura Lawyer’s client Curtis brought a check for $2000 to Laura as an advance payment retainer. Laura instructs you to include the payment in Curtis’s fee agreement and put this money in the firm’s General Operating Account. Under California’s ethics rules, you:

A lawyer shall not present a claim of defense in litigation that is not warranted under existing law, unless it can be supported by a good faith argument for an extension, modification, or reversal of the existing law.

Additional duties of the lawyer when representing both client and payor include an oral consent from both parties.

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A lawyer cannot obtain an advance consent to incompetent representation.

Hunniecutt v State Bar (1988) 44 Cal. 3d 362, 370-71 holds the following: When an attorney enters into a transaction with a former client regarding a fund which resulted from the attorney’s representation, it is unreasonable to examine the relationship between the parties for indications of special trust resulting therefrom.

Koilocytes observed in the Pap smear test of the cervix of patients infected with certain strains of _______ virus.

A communication is false or misleading if it contains a material misrepresentation of a fact or law, or omits a fact necessary to make the communication considered as a whole not materially misleading.

When a lawyer-client relationship ends, the lawyer owes two duties to the former client. One, he/she/they may not do anything that will injuriously affect the former client in any matter in which the lawyer represented the former client. Secondly, the lawyer may not use former client knowledge or information he/she/they learned from the previous relationship.