conflict of interest

conflict of interest.

1. A real or seeming incompatibility between one’s private interests and one’s public or fi-duciary duties.

2. A real or seeming incompatibility between the interests of two of a lawyer’s clients, such that the lawyer is disqualified from representing both clients if the dual representation adversely affects either client or if the clients do not consent. See Model Rules of Prof’l Conduct 1.7(a). [Cases: Attorney and Client 20. 1.]


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