The ABA's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility just published a new Formal Ethics Opinion (No. 520) on a lawyer’s obligation to convey information to a former client or successor counsel. The abstract reads as follows:
Model Rule 1.16(d) requires a lawyer to respond to requests for information from former clients or successor counsel in certain limited circumstances when doing so is necessary to protect client interests and reasonably practicable. Ordinarily, such a request will require a response when the requested information was acquired by the lawyer during the course of the representation, is unavailable from other sources, and is important to the client’s interests in the matter in which the lawyer formerly represented the client. Rule 1.16(d) does not require a lawyer to take steps to acquire new information, generate written responses, or provide further legal services to the client in response to a request for information.
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