Economic Entanglements Between Lawyers and Clients, Vol. 51, No. 8 RES GESTAE 36 (April 2008)

Indiana’s Supreme Court recently decided a case that discusses financial transactions between lawyers and their clients, apart from the client’s fee obligation that is present in most attorney-client representations. It provides a nice opportunity to muse about the topic of lawyer-client business transactions. Lawyers as Fiduciaries Lawyers and their clients stand in a fiduciary relationship [...]