Clarke v. Ruffino

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• holding that an attorney-client relationship existed where the client paid the attorney for legal services in connection with a refinancing, even though the client never asked the attorney to represent him and all contact 6 was with the bank
• noting that then-new disciplinary rules take more expansive view of confidential information than former rules of professional responsibility, which were tied to privileged information or secret information requested to be guarded or that would embarrass or detrimentally impact client
• noting that then-new disciplinary rules take more expansive view of confidential information than former rules of professional responsibility, which were tied to privileged information or secret information requested to be guarded or that would embarrass or detrimentally impact client
• noting that then-new disciplinary rules take more expansive view of confidential information than former rules of professional responsibility, which were tied to privileged information or secret information requested to be guarded or that would embarrass or detrimentally impact client

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).