California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Klotz v. Milbank, B255827 (Cal. App. 2015):
(1994) 26 Cal.App.4th 720, 727.) "'Attorneys are expected to stay within the bounds of law in representing their clients and advising about an appropriate course of action . . . . Counsel who circumvent established legal channels to accomplish a desired result, participating with the client in a scheme to dispossess the other spouse of his or her claimed property or possessory rights, are not performing the "normal services of an attorney." Conduct of this sort exposes counsel to a host of tort claimsincluding a cause of action for attorney-client conspiracy.'" (Rickley v. Goodfriend, supra, 212 Cal.App.4th at p. 1154, italics omitted.)
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