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Extract to table / ethics-analysis-rule-1-9-former-client.docx
ethics-analysis-rule-1-9-former-client.docx
Parties
Metropolitan Transit Development Corp
Harkness LLP
Veritas Biometrics Corp
Davis Thornton LLP
Reese LLP
Dates
May 13, 2024
May 14, 2024
March 14, 2022
September 6, 2022
May 8, 2024
May 6, 2024
May 9, 2024
April 22, 2024
April 29, 2024
June 15, 2021
Amounts
$485
$2,137,500
$8,700,000
$12,400,000
$1,000
$62,000,000
$5,000
$3.5
$5.2
$12.4
Obligations
9(a) thus establishes four key elements, each of which must be addressed in any analysis of a potential former-client conflict: (1) Former-client relationship
The proposed new representation must involve "the same or a substantially related matter
The interests of the new client must be "materially adverse to the interests of the former client
" This element requires more than a theoretical tension between the two clients' positions; there must be a concrete, material conflict between their respective interests in the matters at issue
9(a) does not expressly require that a reasonable lawyer must believe that competent and diligent representation of the new client is possible before seeking consent
Information does not become "generally known" merely because it is theoretically accessible through public records or could be discovered through independent investigation; it must have been widely disseminated to the relevant public