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| A plaintiff's lawyer learning that a witness on whose testimony the lawyer's client's case depends has lied during a deposition may not "negotiate a settlement on behalf of [the] client using, by implication or otherwise" the false deposition statement. As long as the lawyer asserts only facts known to be true, the lawyer "need not disclose to counsel for defendant the witness's admission of fabrication unless subsequent discovery makes further denial impossible." [The Bar did not discuss the lawyer's possible duty to reveal the perjured testimony to the tribunal.] |