When Lawyers Go Undercover For The Feds
DealBook’s Peter Henning recently wrote about lawyers who testify against their own clients. It is an odd situation where a client had assumed some expectation of confidentiality with their attorney then he/she turned around and shared that information with authorities. As Henning wrote, “ There may be no more fertile ground for obtaining damaging information in an investigation than from a lawyer about a client.” That exception may be a lawyer wearing a wire for the feds.
