WHAT DUTIES OF COMMUNICATION DOES THE LAWYER HAVE?
Your lawyer is professionally obligated to have adequate communication with you. There are three types of communications your lawyer must have with you: Information sufficient for your decision making. The lawyer must communicate enough information to the client, in a manner in which the client can understand, so that the client can make knowing and intelligent decisions about the legal matter which the lawyer is handling. Sometimes English is not the first language of a client and the client may not understand the full content of the lawyer’s oral and written communications. In these situations, a lawyer may have a duty to communicate with the client through an interpreter who can communicate adequately with the client in that client’s first language. Significant developments. The lawyer must keep the client reasonably informed of significant developments in the client’s matter in which the lawyer is performing legal services. Responses to reasonable status inquiries. The lawyer must
