"If the culture of the district was to do that type of thing, what was my client's obligation?" Mr. Bracken said.
"I believe that every client's obligation is to be very specific about the terms of success, and every agency's duty to challenge that objective or plan to it".
The impact assessment and the client's obligation to compensate for the impact of the project on the environment have existed since 1976.
Maura J. Wogan, a lawyer representing Mr. Berlinger, said that it was her client's "job, and duty and obligation" under the appeals court's order to turn over the film footage as it specified, and that he "intends to do so as quickly as possible".
Architects have obligations to the client's aesthetic and utility concerns, and in virtue of those obligations, the responsibility, blame, and praise for a given architectural object cannot be wholly attached to the architect alone.
"I believe that this further establishes Morgan Keegan's obligations to its clients," he said in an interview by phone.
Having established the relationships, we must be careful that the legal process does not "break a butterfly on a wheel", while also recognising that the bank's obligations to customers, clients, shareholders and regulators must be met.
In a statement issued Saturday, Bank of America officials said they could not comment on an individual client's situation because of confidentiality obligations.
And there is debate over how a client's death affects a lawyer's obligation to keep the client's secrets.
Abbe Smith, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, said the danger of knowing or doing too much for a client was inherent in a lawyer's obligation to represent clients "zealously within the bounds of law".
