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14-Ownership of Files and Attorney Lien Issues
A lawyer must promptly deliver the file to a client when requested. The Bar declines to determine if the employer or the employees are entitled to the file when the former hires a lawyer to represent the latter. [Rule 1.16(e) governs a lawyer's duty to provide files to a former client.]

Copyright 2000, Thomas E. Spahn