For lawyers to truly serve their clients, they need to have
primary loyalty to those clients.
Not exact matches
They are expressly not intended
to derogate from the Arbitration Agreement (as defined in the Preamble) or
to undermine the legal representative's
primary duty of
loyalty to the
client or the obligation
to present that party's case effectively.
First, we know that while
clients have a degree of
loyalty to a firm, their
primary loyalty is
to their lawyer.
In this agency model, it is the designated agents who have the
primary agency duties of undivided
loyalty, obedience, and confidentiality
to their
client (see section 3 - 3 of the Rules).