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Reckoning: The Duty to Correct Under RPC 3.3

WA Bar News

In addition to triggering a range of human emotions, this uncomfortable discovery may also raise a duty to correct under the Rules of Professional Conduct, specifically RPC 3.3(a)(1): a)(1): A lawyer shall not knowingly … fail to correct a false statement of material fact or law previously made to the tribunal by the lawyer[.]