Daily Archives: April 14, 2017

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Required to Report a Client’s Drug Addiction? Illinois Says Not Necessarily…

A recent Illinois ethics opinion, advised that although a lawyer is obligated to reveal confidential information about a client if is deemed reasonably necessary to prevent certain death or substantial bodily harm, a client’s addiction to heroin or opioid drugs will not trigger that obligation, absent more specific factual details that indicate the risk is not simply remote and uncertain.
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