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Conflicts of Interest: Fundamental Precepts
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| State |
Total Credits |
Ethics |
Other Credit Types |
Expires |
| Alaska | 1 | 1 | N/A | N/A |
| Other States:
AK, AZ, CA, CT, DC, HI, MD, MA, MI, MO, MT, NJ, ND, SD, WV
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It has been said that lawyers have a duty to scrupulously avoid representing conflicting interests. In fact, in some jurisdictions lawyers are duty-bound to avoid placing themselves in a position where they may even appear to be doing so. But the ethical rules do not explain exactly what is meant by a “conflict of interest.” As Justice Marshall pointed out that term is one that is “often used and seldom defined.” This course discusses what the courts, commentators and drafters of the nation’s ethical codes term “conflict of interest” and the host of very different types of circumstances that term describes.
Course Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. Conflicts Between Current Clients
III. Direct Adversity Conflicts
IV. Genesis of the Direct Adversity Rule
V. Closed File Conflicts
VI. Conflicts Between Lawyer and Client
VII. Lawyers Acting in Dual Roles
VIII. Parallel Representation
IX. Conflict Detection and Avoidance
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