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DUTY TO DISCLOSE ATTORNEY MISCONDUCT
Rule 8.3(a) of the Code of Professional Responsibility provides that "a lawyer possessing knowledge not otherwise protected as a confidence by these Rules or by law that another lawyer has committed a violation of Rule 8.4(a)(3) or (a)(4) shall report such knowledge to a tribunal or other authority empowered to investigate or act upon such violation." IL RPC Rule 8.3(a). Rule 8.4(a)(3) in turn forbids lawyers from committing criminal acts that reflect adversely on their trustworthiness, honesty, or fitness as an attorney, and Rule 8.4(a)(4) bars lawyers from engaging in conduct involving fraud, dishonesty, deceit, or misrepresentation. IL RPC Rule 8.4(a)(3) and (a)(4). Thus, lawyers have a duty to report unprivileged knowledge of another lawyer's professional misconduct. As In re Himmel, 125 Ill 2d 531, 533 NE2d 790, 127 Ill Dec 708 (Ill 1988), reh'g denied, 1989, and Skolnick v Altheimer, 191 Ill 2d 214, 730 NE2d 4, 246 Ill Dec 324 (Ill 2000), indicate, this duty is absolute.
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