Court Opinion

ID: 9569690
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:16:26.400929+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:03:45.485806
License: Public Domain

PAGE, Justice
(concurring specially).
I concur in the result reached by the court, but write separately to state that as I read Rule 1.2(a) of the Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct, Minnesota attorneys have an absolute duty, unless they withdraw from the representation, to communicate to the opposing party all settlement offers as proposed by that attorney’s client. If the attorney believes that the settlement as proposed by the client is not in the client’s best interest, it is incumbent upon the attorney to discuss the implications and ramifications of the settlement with the client. If, after that discussion, the client still wants to settle the case as proposed, the rule requires the attorney to either carry out the client’s wishes or withdraw.5

. Obviously the attorney has no obligation to carry out a client's wishes if those wishes involve illegal or unethical conduct.