Conflict of Interest Rules Do Not Disqualify Lawyer as Trustee
Some hard-and-fast conflict of interest rules govern lawyers. Put simply, a lawyer may not represent anyone in an action against a current client. The lawyer is also disqualified from acting against a former client’s interests. That latter rule applies, however, only to matters related to the actual representation of the former client. Competent clients can […]
Trustee Has Duty to Monitor His Lawyer’s Behavior
AUGUST 29, 2016 VOLUME 23 NUMBER 32 Are you a trustee, or named as successor trustee for a family member or friend? We regularly advise people in your circumstance that they should get good legal advice. Once you’ve done that, however, you are not absolved from any liability if things go wrong. A trustee is […]
Lawyer’s Move From Representing Widow to Estate is Problematic
OCTOBER 31, 2011 VOLUME 18 NUMBER 37 Floyd Spence, a Republican Congressman from South Carolina, was a long-time survivor of a heart-lung transplant and a (separate) kidney transplant when he died in 2001, at the age of 73. He was survived by his second wife, Deborah Spence, and four adult sons from his first marriage […]