Your practice is suffering from financial difficulties and this information is withheld employees and clients. Without warning you decide to dissolve your practice effective immediately. Employees are barred from the workplace and clients are sent a brief email about the closure with no explanation of how current projects will continue or how work in progress will be preserved.
Which of the following ethical standards from the AIA’s 2020 Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct should be referenced during the dissolution of one’s practice?