Terminal Four
A lawyer dealing with an unrepresented person whose interests are, or have a reasonable possibility of being, in conflict with the client’s shall not give that person legal advice other than the advice to secure counsel.
He sat across a table from Evelyn Tarrant for twenty minutes and explained a document to her.
A lawyer shall not engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.
He presented as operative an instrument he had advised his own client, in writing, was of no effect, assembled from a signature page he knew had come off something else.
A lawyer shall not counsel or assist a client in conduct the lawyer knows is illegal or fraudulent.