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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

In Re Washington, 489 A.2d 452 (1985)

Citation
In Re Washington, 489 A.2d 452 (1985)
Parent Document
In Re Washington, 489 A.2d 452 (1985)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
1985-02-28

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(BPR May 1984) pp. 50-52, and point out once again, that where an attorney agrees to act for another person in a legal matter, the attorney undertakes the full burdens of the legal relationship no matter how informal or how unremunerative that relationship may be. Indeed, it is not uncommon for us to have before us cases in which attorneys have handled in a slipshod or excessively casual fashion cases undertaken as a favor to relatives, friends, and business associates. We say again, in the hopes that our message will reach the ears of the whole Bar, that when an attorney undertakes to act on behalf of another person in a legal matter, no matter how pure or beneficent his original intention may have been, he invokes upon himself the entire structure of the Code of Professional Responsibility and its consequent enforcement through disciplinary proceedings.