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I retained an attorney who had a paralegal under him do most of the work on the case. In the course of that work the paralegal convinced me to loan him some money and then he'd do a better job on the case. Eventually he defaulted on the promissory note. Is the loan (borrowing from a client) a conflict of interest? Is the attorney liable for this, his paralegal's wrong?
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If the attorney was aware of the loan there may be possibly be liability, but there wouldn't be otherwise. There are strict rules governing loans made from attorney's to their clients, but I don't believe that they would cover paralegals. Have you initiated a suit against the paralegal to collect on the note?
Answered on Sep 09th, 2014 at 4:26 PM