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On the recordMarch 29, 2011
But as a graduate of the Department of Justice, I remain concerned by the matter that we talked about in my office, which is that the standard that the Margolis memo applies to the Office of Legal Counsel in terms of what the Department and its Office of Professional Responsibility expect of the Office of Legal Counsel is in my reading of it lower than what is expected of a regular practitioner hustling into court with bundles of files under his arms in a local trial court until the rules of professional conduct obligations of candor to the tribunal.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse expresses concern over the standards applied to the Office of Legal Counsel.

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