Anti-Contact Rule [Lawyers Professional Responsibility] Law and Legal Definition
In representing a client, a lawyer should not communicate about the subject of the representation with a person the lawyer knows to be represented by another lawyer in the matter, unless the lawyer has the consent of the other lawyer or is authorized to do so by law or a court order. The lawyer must actually know the client is represented, but he cannot close his eyes to the obvious. Courts will enforce this rule even if the lawyer has only circumstantial knowledge of the representation. The parties are not limited to the parties in the litigation. Commonly, courts preclude evidence and "fruit of the poinsonous tree" obtained through ex parte contact.
Legal Definition list
- Anti-Contact Rule [Lawyers Professional Responsibility]
- Anti-Climbing Mechanism [Transportation]
- Anti-Bias Curriculum
- Anti-Ballistic-Missile Treaty [ABM Treaty]
- Anti-Assignment-in-Gross Rule
- Anti-Dilution
- Anti-Dilution Statutes
- Anti-Drug Abuse Act
- Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988
- Anti-Federalists
- Anti-Forfeiture Clause
