Brundage v. Estate of Carambio

In this appeal, we are called upon to consider the intersection between zealous representation of one’s client and an attorney’s obligations of candor to a tribunal. More to the point, we are called upon to consider the scope of the authority of the courts to visit upon a client the burden of a penalty imposed because of his or her attorney’s violation of that obligation of candor.

The facts and circumstances that bring this matter before the Court are in some ways truly unique because, merely by the happenstance of timing, the effect of the attorney’s behavior, even if we were to find that it…