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Can lawyers be disbarred for intentionally giving wrong or misleading advice?

Can they be punished in any other way? Consider this situation: The company asks an employee to do something which might have legal repercussions. Employee asks the company lawyer for indemnification; or confirmation that this is a direct order; or just plain clarification of the legal issues involved. The Company lawyer responds: "don't worry about a thing -- if there is any trouble, my job is to protect you -- no one will ever place the blame on you to protect the company." In other words, corporate lawyers lie to employees, intentionally giving them bad legal advice in order to advantage their actual client, which is the company, not the employee. How is this not illegal? What should the employee say in response to such a claim?

Public Comments

1. A company lawyer represents the company, not the employees. If you take legal advice from a lawyer that may be on the other side of a lawsuit some day, you do so at your peril.