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| A lawyer may threaten to seek "appropriate legal action" against a nonparty witness for defamation of the lawyer's client if the lawyer has a "well-founded belief that the threatened legal action is warranted," but may not engage in such a tactic if the "threatened legal action is without legal basis in law or fact, and the threatened suit is made merely to harass and intimidate the witness, or influence the witness not to come forward with truthful and relevant information." |