Questions tagged [conflict-of-interest]
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Conflict of Interest
Should a plaintiff or defendant ask a prospective lawyer to check for conflict of interest before disclosing information to that lawyer in case the same lawyer has been hired by the opposing defendant ...
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Code of conduct violation [closed]
Just for information
A friend challenged the status quo and was given a notice of retaliation, asked to leave the premises. The parties involved were the president, CFO and HR. She reached out to the ...
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Can a former assistant district attorney become the chief public defender in the same county [closed]
I was appointed a public defender and he use to work as the assistant district attorney int the same county and has been running to become district attorney how can he be appointed to me
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Can an attorney represent a client against a previous client?
Can an attorney represent a client against a previous client, without notification to the previous client? If No, will case be thrown out upon being made known to the Court or must case be appealed on ...
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Conflicts of Interest Dilemma in the US
Generally speaking, does conflict of interests apply when a plaintiff wants to employ the same lawyer the defendant had employed in the past to sue the same defendant (e.g. B employs the lawyer who ...
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USA Employment Law: Job Search with Moonlighting
I am a Software Developer contractor but I also want to have my own side-hustle business. This side hustle business might contain programming, research or developing new software products. However, it ...
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Statement of Economic Interests for website [closed]
I have purchased a Domain name and am planning to build a website for the domain name. I have not published a website yet. I have not received any funds for building the website or business. I also ...
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Purpose of Judiciary- Justice or well-being of people? [closed]
The situation described below is purely hypothetical created by me for the sake of question.
Suppose in a democratic country there exist more than one community on the basis of religion, caste, etc ...
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How do lawyers unofficially and perhaps somewhat surreptitiously influence the content of laws and rules of proceure?
Justice John F. Molloy of Arizona wrote a book titled The Fraternity: Lawyers and Judges in Collusion that was published in 2004.
Among things alleged in that book are that lawyers, in part because of ...
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Is there precedent for Supreme Court justices recusing themselves from cases when they have strong ties to groups with strong opinions on the case?
According to this article in Newsweek, people are calling for Amy Coney Barrett to recuse herself from the 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis case because she has strong ties to anti-gay Christian groups. ...
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Would a Trump-nominated Supreme Court justice be expected to recuse themselves from a Trump case?
As of Oct 21, 2022, the January 6 Committee has issued a subpoena to former president Trump, setting up the potential for a case against Trump to end up in front of the Supreme Court. I spent awhile ...
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Can a supreme court justice argue before the supreme court?
Meet Bob. Bob is a supreme court justice and has a hobby of engaging in private, noncommercial, and legally questionable activities. As a result of those activities, Alice is now suing Bob in his ...
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Potential jurors in a state election fraud scheme-conflict of interest?
Obviously this question was inspired by recent events in the United States, specifically the state of Georgia. It applies more generally though to any such case. I thought that in order to be a ...
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Banned from the only store around [closed]
I was involved in a self-defense shooting where I was in the right it did not happen on the store property for some reason I'm not allowed in the store anymore and it's the only one around I didn't do ...
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Is the right to effective assistance of counsel an inherent right or a privilege
Effective assistance of counsel is a right provided by the 6th amendment. A conflict free counsel is paramount in receiving effective assistance. Can a statute/law deny one a conflict free counsel?
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