When Lawyers and Law Firms Invest in Their Corporate Clients' Stock

Authors

Donald C. Langevoort, Georgetown University Law CenterFollow

Publication Title

Washington University Law Quarterly

Abstract

I am not convinced that lawyers’ investments in clients in lieu of fees are problematic enough from a conflicts standpoint that the rules of professional responsibility should treat them as presumptively inconsistent with the lawyer’s fiduciary responsibility.

Recommended Citation

Donald C. Langevoort, When Lawyers and Law Firms Invest in Their Corporate Clients' Stock, 80 Wash. U. L. Q. 569 (2002).
Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol80/iss2/4