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Conflicts of Interest: Who's Your Client?
In the same way emergency room doctors and nurses are simply more effective in treating their trauma patients if they are not, themselves, vicariously wounded, so are attorneys most effective when they are able to retain a certain professional detachment from the trials and tribulations of their clients – serving their best interests, of course, but never actually becoming one of the adversaries, per se, in the legal conflict. In exchange for this professional immunity from the struggles our clients and their adversaries must endure, society demands of all attorneys, through well-settled rules we will be talking about below, certain minimum standards of conduct.
Conflict of Interest: Who is Your Client
What is a "conflict of interest," and why is everyone so hyper about it? Licensed lawyers are given some very special powers. When we become attorneys, we become officers of the courts of the state granting the license and of the courts affirmatively “admitting” us to their respective bars pursuant to that license (e.g., federal courts).
Conflicts of Interest - Who's Your Client? - Advice to Corporate Counsel
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Conflict of Interest: Who is Your Client
What is a "conflict of interest," and why is everyone so hyper about it? Licensed lawyers are given some very special powers. When we become attorneys, we become officers of the courts of the state granting the license and of the courts affirmatively “admitting” us to their respective bars pursuant to that license (e.g., federal courts).
Conflicts of Interest - Who's Your Client? - Advice to Corporate Counsel
These are the presentation slides.