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· 4/10/1998

Attorney v. Attorney Grievance Commission

Citations

  • 708 A.2d 667
  • 349 Md. 391
  • 1998 Md. LEXIS 244

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that under the state rules of professional responsibility, attorneys who have been terminated maintain the duty to return any files to the client still in the attorney’s possession that rightly belong to the client
  • stating that, “[ajlthough the Supreme Court’s focus has shifted from the contents of the records themselves to the act of production, the Court has not limited ... the collective entity doctrine,” which retains its “vitality even with respect to the act of production”
  • where an attorney moved to quash the state bar disciplinary commission's subpoena for client and financial records by asserting that production of such documents would violate his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination
  • where an attorney moved to quash the state bar disciplinary commission's subpoena for client and financial records by asserting that production of such documents would violate his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination
  • tracing the development of the doctrine
  • tracing the development of the doctrine

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Judges: Bell, Eldridge, Rodowsky, Chasanow, Raker, Wilner, Cathell

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