The move by Steve Bannon’s lawyer to drop him after the ex-Trump strategist suggested Anthony Fauci’s beheading isn’t the first withdrawal of its kind after a client’s shocking behavior, and follows a string of high profile defendants who parted ways with their attorneys.
Ethics rules allow lawyers to terminate their representation for several reasons. These include when a client “insists upon taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant or with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement.”
The concept of repugnance exits to protect the client, said Arthur D. Burger, chair of Jackson & Campbell’s Professional Responsibility Practice Group ...
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