Ann represents Officer Patty in an employment discrimination case against City P

by Caaltu · June 1, 2024

Ann represents Officer Patty in an employment discrimination case against City Police Department(“Department”) in which Patty alleges that Department refused to promote her and other femalepolice officers to positions that supervise male police officers. Bob represents Department.At Patty’s request, Ann privately interviewed a male police captain, Carl, who had heard the Chiefof Police (Chief) make disparaging comments about women in Department. Carl told Ann that Chiefhas repeatedly said that he disapproves of women becoming police officers, routinely assigns themclerical work, and would personally see to it that no female officer would ever supervise any maleofficer. Carl met with Ann voluntarily during his non-work hours at home. Ann did not seek Bob’sconsent to meet with Carl or invite Bob to be present at Carl’s interview.
When Bob saw Carl’s name as a trial witness on the pretrial statement, he asked Chief to prepare amemo to him summarizing Carl’s personnel history and any information that could be used todiscredit him. Chief produced a lengthy memo containing details of Carl’s youthful indiscretions. Inthe memo, however, were several damaging statements by Chief reflecting his negative views aboutfemale police officers. In the course of discovery, Bob’s paralegal inadvertently delivered a copy ofChief s memo to Ann. Immediately upon opening the envelope in which the memo was delivered, Annrealized that it had been sent by mistake. At the same time, Bob’s paralegal discovered and advisedBob what had happened. Bob promptly demanded the memo’s retum, but Ann refused, intending touse it at trial.
Please answer the following questions:
1. Did Ann commit any ethical violation by interviewing Carl? Discuss.2. What are Ann’s ethical obligations with respect to Chief s memo? Discuss.3. At trial, how should the court rule on objections by Bob to the admission of Chief smemo on the grounds of attomey-client privilege and hearsay? Discuss.
Please use the ABA model rules of professional conduct your knowledge of legal ethics sules to support your answers. There is no need to use or research case law in the completion of this assignment