You work at a law firm, and your best friend comes to you because she wants to file for divorce for divorce from her husband. She knows that you think very highly of your supervising attorney and that the attorney regularly handles divorce cases. It is a huge firm with hundreds of lawyers practicing in many different areas of the law. You learn that your friend’s husband is already represented by another attorney in the firm, but in the firm’s offices in another city. Can your supervising take your friend on as a client with respect to her divorce? Why or why not? What should the attorney tell the client?

Discussion 3: Conflicts
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You work at a law firm, and your best friend comes to you because she wants to file for divorce for divorce from her husband. She knows that you think very highly of your supervising attorney and that the attorney regularly handles divorce cases. It is a huge firm with hundreds of lawyers practicing in many different areas of the law. You learn that your friend’s husband is already represented by another attorney in the firm, but in the firm’s offices in another city. Can your supervising take your friend on as a client with respect to her divorce? Why or why not? What should the attorney tell the client?

HINT: Which Rules of Professional Conduct deal with imputed conflicts of interest and what do they say? (Rule 1.7 and 1.10). What do the comments say?

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