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Farias Legal Ethics First is whether or not a lawyer should divulge his knowledge about the innocence or guilt of his client. Lawyers ordinarily should not act against their clients interests, especially in situations in which their very function is to act as an advocate. Confidentiality rules are designed to allow clients to give their lawyers information about their guilt or innocence with the assurance that the lawyers will not reveal it. Lawyers also are bound by moral ethics and by law not to assist a client to the extent that by helping a client the lawyer is already breaking the law.

Fred Zacharias also pointed out if a lawyer should lie if a judge asks him if his client is guilty or not and Fred answered in the affirmative because he explained that a lawyers should be the champion of the clients rights and should defend them at all times. Another point raised by fred is that if a judge asks inappropriate questions the duty of the lawyer is to inform him that the questions raised is inappropriate because a lawyer should always keep the secrets of his client. Freedman also raised that it is the obligation of the lawyer not to lie in court but he also said that a lie can be justified and for it to be justified a lawyer should look at how lying affects the various actors involved in the liethe recipient of the lie, the person who may be harmed or helped by it, and the liar himself. It is worth considering those perspectives here.