Extract to table

The firm must decline the proposed MTDC engagement

The matter is critical to the point that must be emphasized: the patent matter concerns the same TruScan 360 biometric platform that is at the center of the proposed MTDC engagement

A lawyer shall not represent a client if the representation involves a concurrent conflict of interest

10(a), while lawyers are associated in a firm, none of them shall knowingly represent a client when any one of them practicing alone would be prohibited from doing so under Rules 1

However, this prong operates as a necessary but not sufficient condition; it must be satisfied in conjunction with the other three prongs

Under established Illinois precedent and the principles articulated in the Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers § 132, a substantial relationship exists where the factual matters involved in the prior representation are so closely related to the facts in the proposed new representation that it must be assumed that confidential information relevant to the new matter was obtained during the prior representation