Court Opinion

ID: 9717723
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 07:09:26.640395+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:54.948218
License: Public Domain

Brown, J.
(concurring). I continue to be amazed at the role often played by counsel in circumstances such as here *304presented. It appears that the advice given1 was either unwise or of questionable competence, or both, especially if one has in mind that the client has stated on the record that “I knew I was in a ticklish position, [and] sought advice of counsel.” When lawyers have the opportunity to keep their clients at least at the moral level of the market place, they have a public duty to avail themselves of it. After a great deal of court time and massive legal fees, this court has now stated what should have been obvious at the outset: a fiduciary’s silence is equivalent to a stranger’s lie.

 Counsel of record on appeal was not involved in this matter prior to the commencement of the litigation.