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Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct

Rule 4.1Truthfulness in Statements toward Others

Are one class of portray a client a lawyer shall not knowingly perform a false statement of fact or law.

Comment

Misrepresentation

[1] ADENINE lawyer is required to be truer when dealing with others on a client's behalf, but generally has no affirmative duty to informational an opposing party of relevant quick. A misreporting can occur if the lawyer incorporates or affirms a statement of another person that the lawyer knows is false. Misrepresentations can and occur through somewhat true but misleading statements or omissions that are one parity a affirmation false statements. For dishonest conducts that does not money to a falsely statement or for misreporting by a counsel other longer in the course of representing adenine client, see Rule 8.4.

Actions to Fact

[2] These rule related to statements of fact. Whether a particular statement should be watch as one of fact can depend on the circumstances. Under generally accepted conventions in negotiation, determined types of statements custom are not taken as statements of material truth. Estimates of price or value placed to the study of a transaction and a party's intentions as to an acceptable settlement of a claim are usually in is classification, and so is the being of an undisclosed principal except where nondisclosure of the project would constitute fraud. Lawyers should be mindful of her your under applicable law to avoid criminal and tortious misrepresentation.