Hodge v. Klug

I am repeating myself, but “there must be ethical as well as professional limits on how far a lawyer should go in attempting to [press] a hopeless [case]. This time it appears that counsel has gone too far” (citation omitted). Edinburg v. Massachusetts Mut. Life Ins. Co., 22 Mass. App. Ct. 923, 925-926 (1986), (Brown, J., concurring). The majority is too kind in its characterization of the conduct of the tenant’s counsel as “overweening.” I would use more blunt terms: unprofessional and unethical.1

I fail to see how any truly professional and ethical lawyer could, in good conscience, have…