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11 Jan 2024, 6:51 am
” “Comment 24 to Rule 1.7 states that ‘[t]he mere fact that advocating a legal position on behalf of one client might create precedent adverse to the interests of [another] client in an unrelated matter does not create a conflict of interest. [read post]
24 May 2012, 9:56 am
Neil, which stated the general rule is that a lawyer or law firm shouldn’t act directly contrary to the immediate interests of a current client, even on an unrelated matter. [read post]
28 Jun 2012, 1:38 pm
It provides: … a lawyer may not represent one client whose interests are directly adverse to the immediate interests of another current client — even if the two mandates are unrelated — unless both clients consent after receiving full disclosure (and preferably independent legal advice), and the lawyer reasonably believes that he or she is able to represent each client without adversely affecting the other. [read post]
23 Jan 2013, 12:37 pm
Neil, when former justice Ian Binnie wrote that in general “a lawyer may not represent one client whose interests are directly adverse to the immediate interests of another current client” even if the two mandates are unrelated, unless both clients consent after receiving full disclosure.But counsel for the the CBA, Malcolm Mercer, says the rule should only apply where there is a substantial risk of prejudice to the lawyer’s… [read post]
5 Jul 2013, 8:31 am
Neil, which stated that “a lawyer may not represent one client whose interests are directly adverse to the immediate interests of another current client — even if the two mandates are unrelated — unless both clients consent after receiving full disclosure (and preferably independent legal advice), and the lawyer reasonably believes that he or she is able to represent each client without adversely affecting the other. [read post]
10 May 2013, 1:37 pm
Wouldn’t I be better off suing on my own than being part of a group? [read post]
23 Oct 2015, 10:36 am
The mayor’s actions are harmful to both. [read post]
23 Oct 2011, 11:00 am
You are sued in an incident unrelated to the rental property. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 7:55 am
” “Law Firm Can’t Be Disqualified Based on Its Misstatement of Conflicting Representation” — “An attorney’s flub in saying that his law firm represented five employees of a company that was the firm’s client—where those employees, whom it didn’t represent, had interests that were potentially adverse to the client—was not a sufficient basis for disqualifying the firm from representing the company in… [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 7:06 am
Moreover, whether a conflict of interest existed could not be decided as a matter of law. [read post]
5 Apr 2014, 6:51 pm
Even so, the "simultaneous representation of, even though on unrelated matters, is at best unseemly". [read post]
24 Jul 2023, 7:34 am
‘There is a severe conflict of interest of an actual institution and the interests of customers’ he said. [read post]
21 Apr 2014, 4:07 am
And now that expert has taken his wrath out on the blogger by suing him for defamation. [read post]
15 Aug 2022, 3:48 am
” Interestingly, the defendants argued their actions were authorized by the corporation’s by-laws and that Section 4 conflicts with Business Corporation Law § 803(a) providing that a certificate of incorporation can be amended by majority vote unless the certificate itself requires a greater vote, which the subject corporation’s certificate did not. [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 10:47 am
There is first of all a much greater conflict of interest between the members of the class and the class lawyers than there is between an individual client and his lawyer. [read post]
28 Oct 2019, 7:51 am
“While Dorsey’s motivation in having a blog, and publishing this particular article, may be to attract new clients, such motivation does not transform the article—describing a court’s decision in a case unrelated to Dorsey—into commercial speech. [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 7:00 am
Sometimes professionals become angry, stern and bossy with particularly “difficult” clients. [read post]
16 May 2023, 11:39 am
How does the firm screen for conflicts of interest? [read post]
6 Jul 2014, 9:08 am
When landlord’s attorney wrote a strongly-worded letter to plaintiff’s attorney, a concurrent-conflict-of-interest scuffle arose. [read post]
21 Feb 2020, 10:37 am
Bethel sued the trailer’s manufacturer, alleging that the trailer’s faulty brakes caused the accident. [read post]
