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Trisha Rich
After J-M Manufacturing Co. (J-M) parted company with prior counsel, it hired the Sheppard Mullin firm to defend it in federal qui tam litigation brought on behalf of a number of entities.
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Trisha M. Thompson
The New York City Bar Association's Professional Ethics Committee recently issued advisory (i.e., not legally binding) Opinion 2018-5 (Opinion) ...
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Calon Russell
The American Bar Association's (ABA) Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility recently released Formal Opinion 481 ...
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Nellie Barnard
In Formal Opinion 479, the American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility recently sought to define the important term of "generally known" information.
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Trisha M. Thompson
After Washington Supreme Court Decision, Insurer-Paid Defense Lawyers Should Further Assess the Need for Client Consent in Reservation of Rights Situations
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Trisha M. Thompson
In deciding a disqualification motion based on a conflict of interest resulting from a lateral hire, the Eastern District of California recently adopted a screening-friendly approach in National Grange of the Order of Patrons v. California Guild...
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Trisha M. Thompson
Although finding attorney-client privilege unavailable, both courts held that work product privilege could be available if no one other than the employees and their counsel has, in fact, reviewed the emails.
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Marissa Buck,
Calon Russell
The Washington Supreme Court held in a 5-4 vote that attorney-client privilege does not apply to communications between corporate counsel and former corporate employees...
The First Judicial Department of the New York Appellate Division has upheld a claim of attorney-client privilege for documents reflecting communications between attorneys at a firm and that firm's in-house counsel.
New York City Bar Formal Opinion 2015-4 provides clear and helpful guidelines about how to approach this issue from the professional responsibility side.
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Calon Russell
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals, in Order No. M-242-12 of Oct. 8, has adopted amendments to RPC 1.10 that will allow firms who hire lateral lawyers to screen those lawyers in order to prevent imputation of their former-client conflicts.
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Calon Russell
The plaintiff attempted to rebut this presumption by asserting that the lateral lawyer had been appropriately screened.
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Trisha Rich,
Colin Smith
California Joins Growing Number of States in Attempting to Tackle Emerging Lawyer Advertising Issue.
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Marissa Buck,
Vince Farhat,
Allison Martin Rhodes
California Formal Op. No. 2015-192 Addresses the Ethical Tensions in Mandatory Withdrawal Between Duties to the Court and Duties to Maintain Client Confidences
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Allison Martin Rhodes,
Trisha Rich
In a question of first impression, the Massachusetts Court of Appeals held that trial court judges have discretion to award attorneys' fees for work performed by in-house counsel for claims brought under the state's unfair trade practices law.
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