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The state agency in charge of state employment hires an attorney to develop and implement an employee handbook for all employees of the state. Three years after the attorney completes the handbook, the state discharges an employee for violating the handbook provisions. The employee seeks to retain the attorney sues the department for wrongful discharge. The attorney recalls that when developing and implementing the handbook the state’s attorney general issued an opinion for internal use only their authorized discharges on grounds similar to those that were used against the employee. Although at the time the attorney just agreed in writing with the opinion he had to incorporate into the handbook the attorney general’s ground that the employee allegedly violated. The attorney thinks that the grounds for the dispatch agreement and his awareness it could prove the employees prosects Of getting reinstated by the department or increase for potential for prevailing in a lawsuit against the department. What would be the proper an appropriate course of action for the attorney?