ABA issues new ethics opinion on what to do when lawyers received a subpoena for client's documents

 The ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility recently issued a new opinion which provides some guidance to lawyers receiving subpoenas for client documents or information. You can download Formal Opinion 473 here but do so soon because once the opinion goes into the "archive" it will be available for free only to members of the Center for Professional Responsibility.

For comments on the opinion go here and here.