There is no counterpart to this rule in the Tennessee Disciplinary Rules. The Committee has proposed different rules with respect to client perjury and fraud. In the course of representing a client, a lawyer shall not knowingly make a false statement of material fact or law to a third person. A lawyer is required to be truthful when dealing with others on a client's behalf, but generally has no affirmative duty to inform an opposing party of relevant facts or law. A misrepresentation can occur if the lawyer incorporates or affirms a statement of another person that the lawyer knows is false.
Misrepresentations can also occur by failure to act.