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- Study the appropriate law and provide expert legal advice.
- Make certain the client receives the benefit of all their rights under the law.
- Not do anything which might jeopardize their client's interest.
- Conduct the client's case so that it will be decided on the merits.
- Render the highest fidelity toward the rights of the client.
- Protect the client's confidentiality.
- Conduct the case in an orderly and expeditious manner.
- Obey the law and adhere to professional ethics.
- Your lawyer must represent you ethically, zealously and within the bounds of the law.
- Your lawyer must competently analyze legal issues and exercise knowledge of the law applicable to your case.
- He or she must communicate with you in a timely and effective manner
- Your lawyer attorney owes you, as the client, a duty of loyalty. Your lawyer can't simultaneously represent you and another client with legal interests that conflict with yours. An example of an obvious conflict would be representation of both the landlord and the tenant in an eviction action.
- For so long as he or she continues to represent you, your lawyer is required to follow your directions in handling your case unless those directions are illegal.
- Your lawyer must keep your personal property separate from his or her own property, and must keep your money in an escrow account. Any time you demand it, your lawyer must return your money or property.
- Except in rare circumstances, your lawyer is required to keep client confidences confidential.
- Depending on the jurisdiction, lawyers may be prohibited from having personal relationships with their clients.
- Unless he or she first obtains your informed written consent, your lawyer is prohibited from taking on representation that is adverse to your interests.