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Rule 1.10 amended by the ABA

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

At the Winter ABA meeting in Boston, the House of Delegates adopted a revised Rule 1.10, a rule change that was long debated. This rule permits the screening of a lawyer who moves laterally from one private law firm to another, so that conflicts of interest that apply to the moving lawyer under Model Rule 1.9 (“Duties to Former Clients”) are not imputed to all the other lawyers in the new law firm. It will, of course, take years for the states to adopt the changes.

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on February 22, 2009 (boomark / email).