LAW 680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 58: Trade Association
9 Jun 2020
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Summary: atty can have serious obligations to a non-client; and now after. Kirkland brings antitrust law suit arguing that are unfair restraints on uranium industry; and on same day, kirkland lobbies that is not unfair restraint on industry. 1: xxxpositional conflict of interest: arguing opposing arguments; Positional conflict of interest r. 1. 7 comment 24. Can argue two claims- but you have to show doesn"t impact another client. Factors: procedural vs. substantive, where the cases are pending, temporal relationship between the matters, significance of the issue to the immediate or long term interests. Rule 1. 18: duties to prospective clients xxxx: cannot use information used in consultation with a prospective client, cannot reveal unless rules would allow for a current or former client. Do we really need written consent from cousin george? (2) lawyer who received the info took reasonable measures to avoid more exposure to more disqualifying information than was needed to decide if you could represent them.
