Legal Opinion
ATTORNEY GRIEV. COMM'N OF MARYLAND v. Rohrback
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided June 26, 1991No. Misc. Docket (Subtitle BV) No. 25, September Term, 1989PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*83RODOWSKY, Judge.
Respondent, Maynard R. Rohrback (Rohrback), is a solo practitioner whose office is in the Glen Burnie area of Anne Arundel County. One morning in August 1987 Rohrback received a telephone call from a client who had been arrested and who had given a false name to the arresting officer. Rohrback was thereby plunged into a legal ethics nightmare, the conflict under Maryland’s unique version of the new ABA Rules of Professional Conduct between his duty of confidentiality to his client and his duty of candor to tribunals and third parties. For a time Rohrback successfully navigated…
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